Bob Duggan is an  passionate  sportsperson and has been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and attended St. Francis  Secondary school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  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 team, he led his fraternity to the  period's victory. <br> When they  wed they lived in Malibu where they regularly  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing  numerous 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  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  group, he was awarded a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  interest however is  browsing. Even today, the family  delights in an  yearly ten-day  browsing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his  clients and  customers to see new possibilities. He lectures and  performs workshops  across the country and  globally,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  occupation, he  has actually practiced traditional acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the first acupuncture  centers in the state and the  nation 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 meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative  Medication. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in  approach,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  functioned as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood  Researches from New York University and a master's degree in Moral Theology <a href="http://www.purevolume.com/listeners/joshua71s1rgvblog/posts/1293560/Robert+Duggan+Uc+Santa+Barbara+Ventura+Center+Enrollees+Fight+Closure">page</a> from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a nationally  accredited Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.