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  resided in Malibu where they  routinely  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and  yearly ski  journeys to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He also entered in the  uneven Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan  had the ability to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his  youngsters's soccer  group, he was  granted a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major supporter of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  enthusiasm however is  browsing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his  preferred  browsing spots  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  interest with his family and  exceptionally taught each of his  kids to  browse by the time they were  3  years of ages! Even today, the  household  delights in an annual ten-day  browsing  journey together. Bob  has actually been a sports loving person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his  clients and clients to see new possibilities. He lectures and conducts workshops nationally and  globally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for <a href="waiting for link from Web 2.0 Blogs (10)">Recommended Site</a> the acupuncturere  career, he  has actually practiced traditional acupuncture  given that 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 country and  has actually  worked as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide recognized thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and wellness. He  has actually  affirmed before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has 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  viewpoint, 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  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.