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 married they lived in Malibu where they  routinely  delighted in swimming,  browsing and annual ski trips to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <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  buddies. A huge soccer fan after coaching his children's soccer  group, he was  granted a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major supporter of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  interest  nevertheless is surfing. Even today, the family  takes pleasure in an  yearly ten-day surfing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and  customers to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Usual Sense for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His upcoming book on  neighborhood,  health and public policy  will certainly be  released in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops  country wide and  globally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced  standard acupuncture since 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the  very first acupuncture  centers in the state and the  nation and  has actually  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  across the country  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies 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  Home 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  approach,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He earned a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood  Researches from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a <a href="http://All4Webs.com/t/f/lawson726nqmejournal">Get More Information</a> nationally certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  certified acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.