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  wed they lived in Malibu where they  routinely  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and annual ski trips to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure 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  pals. A  big soccer fan after coaching his  youngsters's soccer team, he was  granted a  college championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  interest however is  browsing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his favorite  browsing spots  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this passion with his  household and  extremely taught each of his children to  browse by the time they were three years old! Even today, the  household enjoys an  yearly ten-day  browsing trip together. Bob  has actually been a sports  caring person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his  clients and clients to see  brand-new  opportunities. He lectures and conducts workshops nationally and internationally,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced  standard acupuncture since 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  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  across the country  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy <a href="http://noah36i6gwlblog.postbit.com/bob-duggan-leadership.html">additional resources</a> makers and organizations on complementary  medication and  health. He  has actually testified  prior to 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  Home Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  viewpoint,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.