He grew up in San Jose and  went to 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 lived in Malibu where they regularly  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. Bob  delighted in playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An enthusiastic 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 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  biggest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is  browsing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his  preferred surfing  areas  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this passion with his  household and  extremely taught each of his  youngsters to surf by the time they were  3  years of ages! Even <a href="http://jayden26i7gukblog.edublogs.org/2014/12/21/robert-duggan-10-concerns-in-shopping-for-the-authority-college/">Going Here</a> today, the family  takes pleasure in an annual ten-day surfing  journey together. Bob has been a sports loving  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and  customers to see new possibilities. He lectures and  carries out workshops  across the country and internationally, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere profession, he  has actually practiced  standard acupuncture since 1973 and is Senior Faculty, 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  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  across the country  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication and wellness. He has  affirmed  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 actually 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 served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.