Bob Duggan is an  passionate  sportsperson and has been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. He  likewise enjoyed 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 married they  stayed in Malibu where they regularly  delighted in swimming, surfing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. They  used up running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He  likewise entered in the  sloping Palos Verdes Marathon and finished in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  close friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his children's soccer  group, he was awarded a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant supporter of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is  browsing. Even today, the family  delights in an  yearly ten-day surfing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his patients and clients to see  brand-new  opportunities. He is the author of  Typical Sense for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His upcoming book on community,  health and public policy  will certainly be published in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops  across the country and internationally,  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 <a href="waiting for link from Web 2.0 Blogs (5)">navigate here</a> in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  nation and  has actually  functioned 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 medicine and  health. He  has actually 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  Residence 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 philosophy, 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  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.