Bob Duggan is an  devoted 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  likewise  delighted in swimming and  browsing. 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 season's  triumph. <br> When they  wed they lived in Malibu where they  routinely enjoyed swimming,  browsing and annual ski trips to Aspen. Bob  took pleasure in playing  numerous tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian and also  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. <br>An  passionate fan of the LA Lakers Basketball Team, Bob Duggan  had the ability to  use weekends in Santa Barbara with Pat Riley and  buddies. A  big soccer fan after  training his children's soccer  group, he was awarded a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a  significant  advocate of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion  nevertheless is  browsing. Starting in Santa Cruz, his  preferred surfing  areas  consist of Topanga, Rincon, Hawaii and Costa Rica. He shared this  enthusiasm with his family and  unbelievably taught each of his  kids to  browse by the time they were  3 years old! Even today, the  household enjoys an  yearly ten-day surfing  journey together. Bob  has actually been a sports loving  individual all his life. <br> Robert Duggan has a gift for  motivating his patients and  customers to see new  opportunities. He lectures and conducts workshops  across the country and  globally, including the  extremely popular Redefining Health. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  career, he has practiced  standard acupuncture  because 1973 and is Senior  Professors, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the  very 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  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and advisor to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and  health. 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  Home Commission on Complementary and Alternative  Medication. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in philosophy,  faith, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and  has actually  functioned as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in <a href="http://alexander82v2ujzblog.edublogs.org/2014/12/22/robert-duggan-uc-santa-barbara-ventura-center-learners-fight-closing/">this website</a> Human Relations and Community  Research studies from New York University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's qualification in Acupuncture is from the College of  Conventional Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a  country wide  licensed Diplomate of Acupuncture and a licensed acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.