Bob Duggan is an avid sportsman 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  delighted in swimming and surfing. 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 season's victory. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  delighted in swimming,  browsing and annual ski trips to Aspen. Bob  delighted in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A  big soccer fan after coaching his  youngsters's soccer team, he was awarded a  college championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  fan of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  enthusiasm however is  browsing. Even today, the family  delights in an  yearly ten-day surfing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his patients and  customers to see  brand-new  opportunities. He lectures and conducts workshops nationally and  globally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere profession, he  has actually practiced traditional 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  very first acupuncture  centers in the state and the country and  has actually served 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 actually testified  prior to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and  has actually been a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White  Home Commission on Complementary and Alternative  Medication. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  approach,  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  certification in <a href="http://blog.easybranches.com/activity-streams/p/1106403/">official statement</a> Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.