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 lived in Malibu where they regularly enjoyed swimming, surfing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan was able to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A huge soccer fan after coaching his children's soccer team, he was awarded a  college championship ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  fan of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic  interest however is surfing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his  preferred  browsing spots  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  enthusiasm with his family and  unbelievably taught each <a href="http://joshua05f6dthblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/dr-robert-duggan/">Source</a> of his  youngsters to  browse by the time they were  3 years old! Even today, the family enjoys an  yearly ten-day surfing  journey together. Bob has been a sports  caring  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his  clients and  customers to see new possibilities. He lectures and  carries out workshops  across the country and internationally, including the highly popular Redefining Health. <br>A  pioneer for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced traditional acupuncture  considering that 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  nation and  has actually  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  country wide  acknowledged 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 been a panelist at meetings sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the White  Home 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 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.