Bob Duggan is an  passionate sportsman and  has actually been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and attended St. Francis  Senior high school in Mountain View where he played basketball. He also  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 team, he led his fraternity to the season's victory. <br> When they  wed they lived in Malibu where they  frequently  delighted in swimming, surfing and annual ski  journeys to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing many tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and  likewise developed a  relationship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An enthusiastic fan of the LA Lakers Basketball  Group, Bob Duggan was able to play on weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  close friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his  kids's soccer  group, he was awarded a  college  champion ring when UCSB won the  nationwide title. He was a major  advocate of the university's  arising soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's greatest life-long athletic passion however is  browsing. Even today, the  household enjoys an  yearly ten-day surfing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his patients and  customers to see new  opportunities. He lectures and  carries out workshops nationally and  worldwide,  consisting of the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A  trendsetter for the acupuncturere profession, he has practiced traditional acupuncture since 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded  among the  very first acupuncture  centers in the state and the  nation and has  functioned as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  across the country recognized thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and organizations on complementary medicine and  health. He  has actually <a href="http://logan4925esg6.exteen.com/20141221/robert-duggan-how-to-pick-a-tech-school-during-some-college-">Home Page</a> testified  prior to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and  has actually 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,  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  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom.