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  wed they lived in Malibu where they  routinely  took pleasure in swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  took pleasure in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He also  went into in the  uneven Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan was able to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  close friends. A  big soccer fan after  training his  kids's soccer team, he was awarded a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major  advocate of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  interest  nevertheless is  browsing. Even today, the  household  takes pleasure in an  yearly ten-day surfing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his patients and clients to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His  approaching book on  neighborhood, wellness and public policy will be published in 2012. He lectures and conducts workshops nationally and internationally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere profession, he  has actually practiced  conventional acupuncture since 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 clinics in the state and the  nation and has  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide recognized  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and  health. He has  affirmed  prior to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has been a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White  Home Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of <a href="http://william28u3eaxblog.soup.io/post/505058914/Robert-Duggan-Walkers">her response</a> 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  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.