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  routinely  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  delighted in playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <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  close friends. A  big soccer fan after coaching his children's soccer  group, he was  granted a collegiate championship ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major  fan of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic passion however is surfing. Even today, the family  delights in an  yearly ten-day  browsing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for  motivating his patients and clients to see new possibilities. He lectures and  carries out workshops  country wide and internationally,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced  standard acupuncture since 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President <a href="http://william26f6hxoblog.soup.io/post/506788091/Eric-Lee-Hwa-Rang-Do">Home Page</a> Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the first acupuncture clinics in the state and the  nation and has served as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a nationally recognized  idea leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and wellness. He  has actually  affirmed  prior to 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 advanced degrees in  approach, 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 qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.