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  routinely  took pleasure in swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan  had the ability to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A  big soccer fan after coaching his  kids's soccer team, he was awarded a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major  fan of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  enthusiasm however is surfing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his  preferred surfing  areas  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  enthusiasm with his family and  unbelievably taught each of his  kids to surf by the time they were three years old! Even today, the family  delights in an annual ten-day surfing trip together. Bob has been a sports loving  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He lectures and  carries out workshops  across the country and internationally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  career, he  has actually practiced  standard acupuncture since 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the  very first acupuncture clinics in the state and the country and  has actually  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally recognized  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and  health. He  has actually testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and  has actually 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 served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  viewpoint, theology, 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  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture <a href="http://ourstage.com/profile/dqltknvftitr/wall_items">my company</a> in the United Kingdom.