Bob Duggan is an  devoted  sportsperson and has been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and attended St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  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  triumph. <br> When they  wed they  resided in Malibu where they  frequently  delighted in swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  took pleasure in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He  likewise entered in the  uneven Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his  kids's soccer  group, he was awarded a  college championship 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  interest however is  browsing. Even today, the family  delights in 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  Good sense for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His upcoming book on  neighborhood,  health and public policy will be published in 2012. He lectures and  performs workshops nationally and  globally,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  occupation, he  has actually practiced traditional <a href="http://ourstage.com/profile/xvvmuinxuyvq/wall_items">moved here</a> acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  nation and  has actually served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication and  health. He has testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and  has actually been a panelist at  conferences sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White House 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  approach,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  functioned as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood  Researches 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 United Kingdom. He is a nationally  accredited Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.