Bob Duggan is an  devoted  sportsperson and has been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and attended St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  delighted in swimming and surfing. 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  period's  success. <br> When they  wed they  stayed in Malibu where they  routinely enjoyed swimming, surfing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. They  occupied running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. 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 was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  good friends. A  big soccer fan after  training his children's soccer  group, he was  granted a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant  fan of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is  browsing. Even today, the  household  delights in an annual ten-day surfing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his  clients and clients to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Typical Sense for the Healing Arts (2003). His  approaching book on  neighborhood,  health and public policy will be published in 2012. He lectures and conducts workshops nationally and  globally,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere profession, he <a href="http://www.23hq.com/joshua70t1rgwblog/story/19016989">see post</a> has practiced traditional acupuncture  because 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 nationally recognized  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and  health. He has testified 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  Residence Commission on Complementary and Alternative  Medication. He has 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 served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.