Biography

Robert M. Duggan, M.A., M.Ac. is president of the Tai Sophia Institute and has practiced traditional acupuncture since 1972. He studied under Professor J. R. Worsley at the College of Traditional Acupuncture (UK), where he received his master's qualification in 1979. He received a master's degree in human relations and community studies from the School of Education of New York University in 1970, and a master's degree in moral theology from St. Joseph's Seminary and College in 1964. He has served as chair of the Maryland State Board of Acupuncture and as a commissioner of the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He is the author of Common Sense for the Healing Arts, published in 2004.