Bob Duggan is an  devoted  sportsperson and has been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and  went to St. Francis  Secondary school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also enjoyed 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  triumph. <br> When they married they lived in Malibu where they regularly  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  pals. A huge soccer fan after coaching 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  biggest life-long athletic passion however is  browsing. Even today, the family enjoys an  yearly ten-day surfing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and  customers to see  brand-new possibilities. He lectures and conducts workshops  country wide and  globally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced traditional acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President <a href="http://All4Webs.com/t/f/nylayr047hn">visit the site</a> Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the first acupuncture clinics in the state and the country and has served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally  acknowledged  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary  medication and  health. He  has actually testified  prior to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and has been a panelist at meetings 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 Theology from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a nationally  accredited Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  accredited acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.