Bob Duggan is an  passionate  sportsperson and has been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  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  period's victory. <br> When they  wed they  resided in Malibu where they  frequently  delighted in swimming, surfing and  yearly ski  journeys to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He  likewise entered in the  uneven Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, 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  group, he was  granted a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a  significant  fan of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  enthusiasm however is  browsing. Even today, the  household  takes pleasure in an  yearly ten-day  browsing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and clients to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Good sense for the Healing Arts (2003). His  approaching book on community, wellness and public policy will be  released in 2012. He lectures and  performs workshops  across the country and  worldwide, including the highly 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  conventional acupuncture  because <a href="http://ethan482orssblog.beeplog.de">home</a> 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the first acupuncture  centers in the state and the country and  has actually  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally recognized  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and  health. He has  affirmed before 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 served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  viewpoint,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He earned a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood  Researches from  New york city University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's Seminary. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a  across the country  licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.