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 enjoyed swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  good friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his  youngsters's soccer team, he was  granted a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a  significant  fan of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is  browsing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his favorite  browsing  areas  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  enthusiasm with his  household and  unbelievably taught each of his children to surf by the time they were three years old! Even today, the  household  takes pleasure in an  yearly ten-day surfing trip together. Bob has been a sports  caring  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for inspiring his  clients and  customers to see new  opportunities. He lectures and  performs workshops  across the country and  worldwide,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced  standard acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the  very first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  nation and has  acted as chairman of the <a href="http://seohouston95o1ytoblog.soup.io/post/509534434/Bob-Duggan-Overview-Of-The-San-Nicolas">More Info</a> 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 medicine and  health. He has  affirmed 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  Natural medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in  approach, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.