He grew up in San Jose and  went to 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  delighted in swimming,  browsing and  yearly ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  delighted in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan was able to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A huge soccer fan after coaching his  kids's soccer  group, he was  granted a  college  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 passion  nevertheless is  browsing.  Beginning in Santa Cruz, his  preferred  browsing  areas  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this passion with his family and  extremely taught each of his  kids to surf by the time they were three years old! Even today, the family  delights in an annual ten-day surfing  journey together. Bob has been a sports loving person all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and clients to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Sound judgment for the Healing Arts (2003). His upcoming book on community, wellness and public policy will be  released in 2012. He lectures and conducts workshops  across the country and internationally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter <a href="http://anthony420gknrblog.beeplog.de">useful content</a> at the first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced  standard acupuncture  considering that 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  nation and  has actually  worked as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide recognized  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication and wellness. He has testified before 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  Residence Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 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 served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.