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 enjoyed swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able 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 championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  interest however is  browsing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his favorite  browsing spots include Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  interest with his  household and incredibly taught each of his  kids to  browse by <a href="http://jayden40a6oonblog.unblog.fr/2014/12/22/bob-duggan-uc-santa-barbara-gauchos/">weblink</a> the time they were three  years of ages! Even today, the  household  delights in an  yearly ten-day surfing  journey together. Bob has been a sports  caring  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his  clients and clients to see new possibilities. He lectures and  performs workshops  across the country and  globally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere  career, he  has actually practiced traditional acupuncture since 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the 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  country wide recognized thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and wellness. He  has actually  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  Residence Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in philosophy,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.