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  resided in Malibu where they  routinely  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a friendship 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  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan  had the ability to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A  big soccer fan after  training his  youngsters's soccer  group, he was  granted a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major  advocate of the university's emerging 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 incredibly taught each of his children to surf by the time they were  3 years old! Even today, the family  delights in an  yearly ten-day surfing  journey together. Bob  has actually been a sports loving person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for inspiring his patients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He lectures and conducts workshops  across the country and  globally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  career, 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 one of the first acupuncture clinics in the state and the country and has  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide recognized thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations <a href="waiting for link from Web 2.0 Blogs (5)">dig this</a> on complementary medicine and  health. He has testified  prior to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and  has actually been a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually 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 qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.