Bob Duggan is an avid sportsman and has been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and  went to St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  took pleasure in swimming and  browsing. At the University of California in Santa Barbara, he played intramural sports. As captain of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon basketball team, he led his fraternity to the season's  success. <br> When they  wed they lived in Malibu where they regularly  delighted in swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  close friends. A huge soccer fan after coaching his  kids's soccer  group, he was  granted a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major supporter of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  enthusiasm  nevertheless is  browsing. Even today, the  household  delights in an  yearly ten-day  browsing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his  clients and  customers to see  brand-new  opportunities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His  approaching book on  neighborhood, wellness and public policy  will certainly be published in 2012. He lectures and conducts workshops  country wide and  globally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced traditional acupuncture since 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  nation and  has actually  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide recognized thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication and wellness. He has  affirmed  prior to the <a href="http://roland582xmcrhangout.soup.io/post/509302001/Bob-Duggan-Making-A-Decision-On-A">official website</a> Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and  has actually been a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White House 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, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  acted as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood  Research studies from New York University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a nationally certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.