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  resided in Malibu where they regularly  took pleasure in swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. They  used up running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He also  went into in the  sloping Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <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 coaching his  youngsters's soccer team, he was  granted a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major  fan of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  interest  nevertheless is surfing. Even today, the family  takes pleasure in an  yearly ten-day  browsing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and clients to see  brand-new  opportunities. He lectures and  performs workshops  across the country and internationally, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced  conventional acupuncture since 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  <a href="http://alexander17u3dawblog.edublogs.org/2014/12/21/bob-duggan-uc-santa-barbara-ventura-center-customers-fight-drawing-a-line-under/">go right here</a> among the  very first acupuncture clinics in the state and the country and has  acted 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 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  Natural medicine. He  has actually served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  approach, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He earned a master's degree in Human Relations and Community Studies from New York University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the  Uk. He is a  across the country  accredited Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  certified acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.