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  wed they lived in Malibu where they  routinely enjoyed swimming, surfing and  yearly ski  journeys to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He also  went into in the hilly Palos Verdes Marathon and  completed in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  close friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his children'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  browsing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his  preferred  browsing spots include Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  interest with his family and  extremely taught each of his  youngsters to surf by the time they were three  years of ages! Even today, the  household enjoys an  yearly ten-day  browsing trip together. Bob has been a sports  caring  individual all his life. <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 upcoming book on community, wellness and public policy  will certainly be published in 2012. He lectures and conducts workshops  country wide 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 practiced  conventional acupuncture  considering that 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in <a href="http://www.purevolume.com/listeners/joseph15e5csgblog/posts/1294931/Bob+Duggan+10+Factors+In+Shopping+For+The+Better+College">why not try these out</a> Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  nation and  has actually  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally recognized thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and wellness. He has testified  prior to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and  has actually been a panelist at  conferences sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White House Commission on Complementary and  Natural medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in  approach,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.