Bob Duggan is an avid sportsman and  has actually 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  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 team, he led his fraternity to the  period's  triumph. <br> When they  wed they  stayed in Malibu where they regularly  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. They  occupied running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He also  went into in the  sloping Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his  youngsters's soccer team, he was awarded a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic passion however is  browsing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his  preferred  browsing  areas  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  interest with his  household and  extremely taught each of his  youngsters to surf by the time they were three  years of ages! Even today, the  household enjoys an annual ten-day  browsing  journey together. Bob has been a sports loving  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his patients <a href="http://blog.easybranches.com/activity-streams/p/1092595/">go</a> and  customers to see new possibilities. He lectures and conducts workshops nationally and internationally, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere profession, he  has actually practiced  conventional acupuncture since 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the  very first acupuncture clinics in the state and the country and has served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication and  health. He  has actually testified before 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 House Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in philosophy,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually  worked as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He earned a master's degree in Human Relations and Community  Researches from New York University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a  country wide certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  certified acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.