Bob Duggan is an avid sportsman and  has actually been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and attended St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He  likewise enjoyed swimming and  browsing. At the University of California in Santa Barbara, he played intramural sports. As captain of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon basketball  group, he led his fraternity to the season's  triumph. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  delighted in swimming, surfing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  pals. A huge soccer fan after  training his children's soccer  group, he was awarded a  college championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major supporter of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is surfing. Even today, the  household enjoys an  yearly ten-day surfing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his patients and  customers to see new  opportunities. He lectures and  performs workshops  country wide and  worldwide, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  occupation, he  has actually practiced traditional acupuncture  considering that 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. <a href="http://ourstage.com/profile/bgvjiolbzsod/wall_items">moved here</a> He co-founded one of the  very first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  nation and  has actually  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  across the country recognized  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication and  health. He has  affirmed before 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  Home Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He has 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  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.