Bob Duggan is an  devoted sportsman and  has actually been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. He  likewise  took pleasure in swimming and surfing. 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 season's  success. <br> When they married they  resided in Malibu where they  routinely enjoyed swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. They  occupied running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He also  went into in the hilly Palos Verdes Marathon and finished in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate 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 coaching his  youngsters's soccer  group, he was  granted a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  enthusiasm  nevertheless is surfing. Even today, the family  delights in an annual ten-day  browsing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for inspiring his  clients and clients to see new possibilities. He lectures and conducts workshops nationally and internationally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  occupation, he has practiced  conventional acupuncture  because 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  centers in the state and the  nation and  has actually  worked as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and  consultant 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 meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White House <a href="http://www.23hq.com/joshua95k9tpkblog/story/18885302">additional reading</a> 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 actually  acted as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood  Researches from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a  across the country  licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  certified acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.