Bob Duggan is an  passionate  sportsperson and  has actually been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and attended St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also enjoyed swimming and  browsing. At the University of California in Santa Barbara, he played intramural sports. As captain of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon basketball team, he led his fraternity to the season's  triumph. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they  routinely enjoyed swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  delighted 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 Team, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A  big soccer fan after coaching his  youngsters's soccer team, he was awarded a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is surfing. Even today, the  household  takes pleasure in an annual ten-day  browsing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his patients and  customers to see new possibilities. He lectures and  performs workshops nationally and  worldwide, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere profession, he  has actually practiced traditional acupuncture  considering that 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the  very first acupuncture  centers in the state and the country and  has actually served 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 <a href="http://www.23hq.com/daniel93z3yncblog/story/19029544">site web</a> of Health (NIH) and the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative 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 served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.