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  frequently enjoyed swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He also  went into in the  sloping Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his children's soccer team, he was awarded a  college championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a  significant  fan of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion however is  browsing. Even today, the  household  takes pleasure in an annual ten-day surfing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his  clients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the Healing Arts (2003). His  approaching book on community,  health and public policy  will certainly be  released in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops  country wide and internationally, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  career, he  has actually practiced  standard 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  very 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  across the country recognized  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication and wellness. He  has <a href="http://jayden38r0uniblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/robert-duggan-uc-santa-barbara-gauchos/">other</a> 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 actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in  viewpoint,  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  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.