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  resided in Malibu where they regularly  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and  yearly ski  journeys to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  took pleasure in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He  likewise entered in the  sloping Palos Verdes Marathon and finished in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  close friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his  kids's soccer team, 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  biggest life-long athletic  enthusiasm however is surfing. Even today, the  household  delights in an  yearly ten-day surfing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his patients and  customers to see new  opportunities. He is the author of Common Sense for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His upcoming book on community,  health and public policy  will certainly 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 first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  occupation, he has practiced  conventional acupuncture  given that 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. <a href="http://All4Webs.com/t/f/angelcs147ix">pop over to this site</a> He co-founded  among the first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  nation and has  worked as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  across the country recognized  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication and wellness. He has  affirmed before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has 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, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.