Bob Duggan is an avid  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  likewise enjoyed 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  period's victory. <br> When they  wed they  resided in Malibu where they regularly  took pleasure in swimming,  browsing and annual ski trips to Aspen. They  occupied running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He  likewise entered in the  sloping Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A  big soccer fan after  training his children's soccer  group, he was awarded a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  interest however is surfing. Even today, the  household enjoys an annual ten-day  browsing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his patients and clients to see  brand-new  opportunities. He is the author of  Usual Sense for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His  approaching book on  neighborhood,  health and public policy  will certainly be published in 2012. He lectures and  performs workshops  country wide and  worldwide, including the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced  standard acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the first acupuncture  centers in the state and the country and  has actually served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide recognized  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication and wellness. He  has actually testified  prior to 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  Home Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in  viewpoint,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  worked as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He earned a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood Studies from New York University and a master's degree in Moral  Faith from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a nationally  licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a licensed acupuncturist in the state of <a href="http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Robert-Duggan-Uc-Santa-Barbara-Gauchos/5281812">see here</a> Maryland.