He grew up in San Jose and attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. At the University of California in Santa Barbara, he played intramural sports. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  delighted in swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  good friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his children's soccer  group, he was  granted a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  enthusiasm  nevertheless is surfing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his favorite surfing spots include Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  interest with his family and incredibly taught each of his children to surf by the time they were  3 years old! Even today, the family  takes pleasure in an annual ten-day surfing  journey together. Bob  has actually been a sports loving  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his patients and clients to see new  opportunities. He lectures and  carries out workshops  across the country and  globally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced  conventional acupuncture  considering that <a href="http://profitbot58o9lapblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/robert-duggan-overview-including-san-nicolas-dorm-using-uc-santa-barbara/">content</a> 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the first acupuncture  centers in the state and the  nation and has  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication and  health. He has testified  prior to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has been a panelist at  conferences sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White  Residence Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  viewpoint,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.