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  stayed in Malibu where they regularly enjoyed swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He  likewise entered in the hilly Palos Verdes Marathon and finished in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <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  pals. A  big soccer fan after  training his  youngsters'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 emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest <a href="https://github.com/matthew03a3yodb/Robert-Duggan-Uc-Santa-Barbara-Gauchos/issues/1">that site</a> life-long athletic passion however is surfing. Even today, the family enjoys an annual ten-day  browsing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his  clients and  customers to see  brand-new  opportunities. He lectures and  carries out workshops nationally and internationally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  occupation, 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 one of the first acupuncture  centers 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 recognized  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication and wellness. He  has actually  affirmed before 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  Medication. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in philosophy,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.