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 married they  stayed in Malibu where they regularly enjoyed swimming, surfing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. They  occupied running and tennis. Bob  took pleasure in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He also entered in the hilly 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  kids's soccer team, he was awarded a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant  fan of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  enthusiasm however is surfing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his favorite surfing spots  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  interest with his  household and  exceptionally taught each of his  youngsters to  browse by the time they were  3  years of ages! Even today, the  household  takes pleasure in an  yearly ten-day  browsing  journey together. Bob  has actually been a sports loving person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and  customers to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His upcoming book on  neighborhood,  health and public policy  will certainly be published in 2012. He lectures and conducts workshops  country wide and  worldwide,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere  occupation, he  has actually practiced  conventional acupuncture  considering that 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  centers in the state and the  nation and  has actually served as chairman <a href="http://ethan69q9ncrblog.hatenablog.com/entries/2014/12/21">Visit Your URL</a> of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and  health. He  has actually testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and  has actually been a panelist at  conferences 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 advanced degrees in  approach,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  functioned as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He earned a master's degree in Human Relations and Community  Researches from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a  country wide  accredited Diplomate of Acupuncture and a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.