Bob Duggan is an avid  sportsperson and  has actually been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and  went to St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  took pleasure in swimming and surfing. 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  success. <br> When they married they  stayed in Malibu where they regularly  delighted in swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski  journeys to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He also  went into in the hilly Palos Verdes Marathon and finished in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A huge soccer fan after  training his children's soccer team, he was awarded a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major supporter of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion however is surfing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his  preferred surfing spots  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  enthusiasm with his family and  unbelievably taught each of his  youngsters to  browse by the time they were three  years of ages! Even today, the  household enjoys an  yearly ten-day  browsing trip together. Bob has been a sports  caring person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his  clients and clients to see  brand-new possibilities. He is the author of  Typical Sense for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His upcoming book on community,  health and public policy will be published in 2012. He lectures and  performs workshops nationally and  globally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  occupation, he  has actually practiced  standard 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 clinics in the state and the  nation and  has actually served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication and  health. He has testified before 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 House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in philosophy, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  worked as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and Community  Researches from New York University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's Seminary. <a href="http://ourstage.com/profile/lkdijsrowqjw/wall_items">see</a> His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a nationally  accredited Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  certified acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.