Bob Duggan is an avid sportsman and has been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. He  likewise  delighted in 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 victory. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they  routinely  took pleasure in swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise  established 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  pals. A huge soccer fan after  training his  youngsters's soccer team, he was  granted a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  advocate of the university's emerging 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 family and  unbelievably taught each of his children to  browse by the time they were three  years of ages! Even today, the family  delights in an  yearly ten-day surfing trip together. Bob has been a sports loving person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and clients to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Good sense for the Healing Arts (2003). His upcoming book on community, wellness and public policy  will certainly be  released in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops  country wide and  globally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the first <a href="http://adam627rmfzblog.beeplog.de">view it now</a> TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  career, he  has actually practiced traditional acupuncture  because 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 served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication and  health. He has testified  prior to 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 actually 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  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.