He grew up in San Jose and  went to 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 lived in Malibu where they  routinely  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and friends. A  big soccer fan after  training his  kids's soccer team, he was  granted a collegiate  champion 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  interest however is surfing. Even today, the  household enjoys an  yearly ten-day  browsing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his patients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He is the author of  Typical Sense for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His upcoming book on community,  health and public policy will be published in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops nationally and  globally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere profession, 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 one of the first acupuncture clinics in the state <a href="http://joshua60s0qgublog.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/robert-duggan-how-to-pick-a-training-during-all-of-your-college-search/">Look At This</a> and the  nation and  has actually served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally recognized thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and wellness. He has testified 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 served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has 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. He earned a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood Studies from New York University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a  country wide certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.