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 married they lived in Malibu where they  routinely  delighted in swimming, surfing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. They  used up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. He also entered in the hilly Palos Verdes Marathon and finished in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  good friends. A  big soccer fan after  training his  youngsters's soccer  group, he was  granted a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a  significant supporter of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  interest  nevertheless is surfing. Even today, the family  delights in an  yearly ten-day  browsing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his  <a href="http://matthew94b5ctkblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/bob-duggan-leadership/">he said</a> clients and  customers to see new  opportunities. He is the author of  Usual Sense for the  Recovery Arts (2003). His  approaching book on community,  health and public policy will be  released in 2012. He lectures and conducts workshops  country wide and  globally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a  speaker at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced traditional acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the  very 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 recognized thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and wellness. He  has actually  affirmed before 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 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 actually served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.