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 regularly  delighted in swimming, surfing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. They  used up running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He also entered in the hilly 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  good friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his  youngsters's soccer team, he was  granted a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  enthusiasm  nevertheless is  browsing. Even today, the  household  takes pleasure in an  yearly ten-day surfing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his  clients and clients to see  brand-new possibilities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His  approaching book on  neighborhood,  health and public policy will be published in 2012. He lectures and  carries out workshops  country wide and  worldwide,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere  career, he  has actually practiced  standard acupuncture  given that 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the first acupuncture  centers in the state and the  nation and  has actually  acted 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 organizations on complementary medicine and wellness. He has testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and <a href="http://ourstage.com/profile/uufmunwwjstm/wall_items">Home Page</a> Pensions and  has actually been a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White  Home Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  viewpoint, theology, 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  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.