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  stayed in Malibu where they regularly enjoyed swimming, surfing and annual ski trips to Aspen. They took up 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 entered in the  uneven Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  close friends. A huge soccer fan after coaching his  kids's soccer  group, he was awarded a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic passion however is surfing. Even today, the family enjoys an annual ten-day  browsing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for inspiring his patients and clients to see  brand-new  opportunities. He lectures and  performs workshops nationally and internationally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced traditional acupuncture  given 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 clinics in the state and the  nation and has  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide recognized thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and wellness. He has testified  prior to 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  <a href="http://ourstage.com/profile/nzqqbioikjvm/wall_items">websites</a> 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  Faith from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a  across the country  licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  certified acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.