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  wed they lived in Malibu where they  routinely enjoyed swimming, surfing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and 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  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  enthusiasm  nevertheless is  browsing. Even today, the  household  takes pleasure in an annual ten-day surfing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for inspiring his  clients and  customers to see  brand-new  opportunities. He is the author of  Typical Sense for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His upcoming book on community, wellness and public policy  will certainly be  released in 2012. He lectures and  performs workshops  across the country and  globally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced traditional acupuncture  because 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 <a href="http://john471t1rg6.exteen.com/20141223/robert-duggan-considering-a-education-and-learning-during-co">view</a> the  nation and  has actually  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally recognized thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and wellness. He  has actually  affirmed  prior to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has been a panelist at  conferences 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 advanced degrees in philosophy, theology, 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  Research studies from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral  Faith from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a  across the country certified Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.