Bob Duggan is an  passionate  sportsperson and  has actually been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and  went to St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  delighted in swimming and  browsing. 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  period's  triumph. <br> When they  wed they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  took pleasure in swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan  had the ability to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  close friends. A  big soccer fan after  training his children's soccer team, he was awarded a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is  browsing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his favorite surfing spots  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  interest with his  household and  extremely taught each of his  kids to surf by the time they were  3  years of ages! Even today, the family enjoys an annual ten-day  browsing trip together. Bob  has actually been a sports  caring  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his patients and clients to see  brand-new possibilities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His  approaching book on community,  health and public policy  will certainly be published in 2012. He lectures and  performs workshops  across the country and  globally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  pioneer for 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 first acupuncture  centers in the state and the country and  has actually  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally recognized  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication and  health. He has  affirmed before 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 Medicine. He  has actually 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  acted as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He earned a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood Studies from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a nationally  <a href="http://www.kiwibox.com/william27u3eayb/blog">his comment is here</a> licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.