Bob Duggan is an avid sportsman and has been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and  went to St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. He  likewise  took pleasure in swimming and  browsing. At the University of California in Santa Barbara, he played intramural sports. As captain of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon basketball  group, he led his fraternity to the  period's  success. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  delighted in swimming, surfing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  good friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his  kids's soccer team, he was  granted a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant  fan of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is surfing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his favorite  browsing  areas  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  enthusiasm with his family and  unbelievably taught each of his  kids to surf by the time they were  3 years old! Even today, the  household  delights in an  yearly ten-day surfing  journey together. Bob has been a sports loving  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his  clients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He is the author of  Good sense for the Healing Arts (2003). His  approaching book on community,  health and public policy will be  released in 2012. He lectures and conducts workshops  country wide and internationally,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic <a href="http://www.andrew04d5bpfblog.myblog.de/andrew04d5bpfblog">her response</a> Conference. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  occupation, he has practiced  conventional acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  nation and has  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and  health. He has testified  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  Residence 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 philosophy,  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.