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 married they  stayed in Malibu where they  routinely enjoyed swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. They  used up running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He  likewise entered in the  sloping Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  good friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his  kids's soccer  group, he was  granted a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant supporter of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  interest however is  browsing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his  preferred surfing  areas include Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  interest with his family and  unbelievably taught each of his  kids to surf by the time they were three years old! Even today, the family  takes pleasure in an annual ten-day  browsing trip together. Bob  has actually been a sports loving  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift <a href="http://matthew92w2shvblog.hatenablog.com/entries/2014/12/23">Web Site</a> for  motivating his patients and clients to see  brand-new possibilities. He is the author of  Usual Sense for the Healing Arts (2003). His  approaching book on community,  health and public policy will be published in 2012. He lectures and  performs workshops  country wide and  worldwide, including the  extremely 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 practiced  conventional acupuncture since 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  nation and has  worked as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and  health. He has 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  Residence Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in philosophy, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually 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  Faith 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  accredited Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.