Bob Duggan is an avid sportsman and has been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and  went to St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He  likewise  delighted in swimming and  browsing. 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 season's victory. <br> When they  wed they  resided in Malibu where they  routinely enjoyed swimming, surfing and annual ski trips to Aspen. They  used up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He  likewise entered in the hilly Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan  had the ability to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  close friends. A  big soccer fan after  training his  kids's soccer  group, he was awarded a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  enthusiasm however is surfing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his favorite surfing  areas  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  enthusiasm with his  household and  exceptionally taught each of his  youngsters to  browse by the time they were three years old! Even today, the  household  takes pleasure in an  yearly ten-day  browsing  journey together. Bob  has actually been a sports  caring person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his  clients and  customers to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Good sense for the Healing Arts (2003). His upcoming book on community, wellness and public policy will <a href="http://All4Webs.com/t/f/alisask814bp">you can try these out</a> be published in 2012. He lectures and conducts workshops nationally and internationally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere profession, he has 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 clinics in the state and the country and  has actually  acted 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  companies on complementary  medication and wellness. 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  Medication. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  approach, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood Studies from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral  Faith 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 nationally  accredited Diplomate of Acupuncture and a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.