Bob Duggan is an  passionate sportsman and  has actually been all his life. He grew up in San Jose and  went to 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 married they  stayed in Malibu where they  routinely  took pleasure in swimming, surfing and  yearly ski trips to Aspen. They  occupied running and tennis. Bob enjoyed playing  lots of tennis matches with Kirk Kerkorian  as well as  established a friendship with Bobby Riggs, the Triple-Crown Tennis  Champ. He also entered 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  close friends. A huge soccer fan after  training his children's soccer team, he was  granted a collegiate  champion ring when UCSB won the national title. He was a major  fan of the university's emerging soccer program.<br> Robert Duggan's  biggest life-long athletic passion however is  browsing. Even today, the family  delights in an  yearly ten-day surfing trip together. <br> Robert Duggan has a  present for inspiring his patients and  customers to see new possibilities. He is the author of  Good sense for the Healing Arts (2003). His upcoming book on  neighborhood,  health and public policy will be  released in 2012. He lectures and  performs workshops nationally and  globally,  consisting of the highly popular Redefining Health. In 2009, he was a presenter at the  very first TEDx MidAtlantic Conference. <br>A trailblazer for the acupuncturere  occupation, he  has actually practiced traditional acupuncture  given that 1973 and is Senior Faculty, Co-founder, and President Emeritus of Tai Sophia Institute in Laurel, Maryland. He co-founded one of the  very first acupuncture  centers in the state and the country and has  worked as chairman of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture.<br>Bob Duggan is a  across the country  acknowledged thought leader, speaker and  consultant to policy makers and  companies on complementary medicine and  health. He  has actually testified before the <a href="http://www.purevolume.com/listeners/matthew93a4apfblog/posts/1285362/Robert+Duggan+10+Factors+In+Choosing+The+Correctly+College">click resources</a> 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  Residence Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He has served on the board of trustees of The Horizon Foundation.<br> Duggan  has actually advanced degrees in  approach, theology, human relations, inter-cultural communications, canon law and acupuncture, and has  functioned as a priest in the U.S. and abroad. He  made a master's degree in Human Relations and  Neighborhood Studies from New York University and a master's degree in Moral Theology from St. Joseph's  Academy. His master's  credentials in Acupuncture is from the College of  Standard Chinese Acupuncture in the United Kingdom. He is a  country wide  accredited Diplomate of Acupuncture and a  certified acupuncturist in the state of Maryland.