Bob Duggan is an avid sportsman and has been all his life. He  matured in San Jose and  went to St. Francis High School in Mountain View where he played basketball. He  likewise  delighted in swimming and surfing. At the University of California in Santa Barbara, he played intramural sports. As captain of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon basketball  group, he led his fraternity to the  period's victory. <br> When they  wed they lived in Malibu where they regularly  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and  yearly ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob enjoyed playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis Champion. <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  big soccer fan after coaching his  kids's soccer team, he was  granted a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic  enthusiasm however is  browsing. Even today, the family  delights in an annual ten-day  browsing  journey together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his  clients and clients to see new possibilities. He lectures and conducts workshops  country wide and  worldwide,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A  <a href="http://www.purevolume.com/listeners/noah37l8jynblog/posts/1285449/Robert+Duggan+Uc+Santa+Barbara+Gauchos">go now</a> pioneer for the acupuncturere  career, 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  among the first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  nation and has  worked as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally recognized  idea leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and organizations on complementary  medication and wellness. He has  affirmed 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 House 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  viewpoint,  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  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.