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  stayed in Malibu where they regularly  took pleasure in swimming,  browsing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. They took up running and tennis. Bob  delighted in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He also  went into in the  sloping Palos Verdes Marathon and finished in 2 hours and 49 minutes. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan  had the ability to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  good friends. A  big soccer fan after coaching his  kids's soccer  group, he was  granted a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant supporter of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is surfing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his  preferred  browsing spots  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  interest with his family and  exceptionally taught each of his  youngsters to  browse by <a href="http://ourstage.com/profile/djbugzbgddqs/wall_items">click reference</a> the time they were three years old! Even today, the family  takes pleasure in an  yearly ten-day surfing trip together. Bob has been a sports  caring  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for inspiring his  clients and  customers to see new  opportunities. He lectures and  carries out workshops nationally and  worldwide, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere profession, he  has actually practiced  conventional acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the first acupuncture  centers in the state and the country and has  acted as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide recognized thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and  health. He  has actually 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 Alternative Medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan has advanced degrees in  viewpoint, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has served as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. His master's  certification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.