Staff
Our staff all participate in various aspects of helping the clinic run smoothly. Everyone's primary role is the care of patients, but as a small clinic, we all take on other roles as well.
Dr. Richard Gibbs
Co-Founder & Board Chair
Dr. Richard Gibbs founded the San Francisco Free Clinic with Dr. Tricia Gibbs in 1993. He is currently the Board Chair of the clinic where he continues to see patients and teach. The Drs. Gibbs are graduates of Yale School of Medicine (where they met and married), and they both completed their residency in family medicine at the University of Washington. In addition to his work at the clinic, Dr. Richard Gibbs is the Supervising Physician for the San Francisco Ballet.
Dr. Tricia Gibbs
Co-Founder, Board Secretary, and Treasurer
Dr. Patricia Hellman Gibbs founded the San Francisco Free Clinic with Dr. Richard Gibbs in 1991. She established and served as the head of the clinic's diabetes program for many years. Tricia previously was a member of the U.S. Ski Team. After her professional skiing career, she attended Yale Medical School, where she and Richard first met and married. Both of them went on to the University of Washington, where they completed their residency in family medicine.
Dr. Ian Nelligan
Executive Director & Attending Physician
Dr. Ian Nelligan began work with the San Francisco Free Clinic as an attending physician in 2022. He went on to work as interim Medical Director, and more recently as Assistant Clinic Director. Dr. Nelligan completed medical school at UNC Chapel Hill and residency at UCSF Family and Community Medicine. He was clinical faculty at Stanford School of Medicine for 9 years where he was the Director of Digital Health for Primary Care and Associate Director of the Stanford PA program prior to joining the San Francisco Free Clinic.
Dr. Ashley Tsang
Medical Director & Attending Physician
Dr. Ashley Tsang is a primary care physician at the San Francisco Free Clinic where she also supervises the diabetes clinic and oversees grant applications. She attended medical school at University of Chicago and went on to UCSF to complete her residency in Family Medicine. In addition to her many duties at SFFC, she also practices addiction medicine at HealthRight360.
Dr. Liz Hume
Attending Physician & Board Member
Dr. Liz Hume is a primary care physician at the San Francisco Free Clinic. She received her M.D. from Boston University School of Medicine and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Dr. Hume has been an attending physician at the San Francisco Free Clinic since completing her residency.
Paula Martin
Clinic Manager
Paula Martin worked as office manager for Tricia and Richard Gibbs since the days of their private practice. She stayed on with them when they started the San Francisco Free Clinic, and has worn the many hats required to run the Clinic smoothly ever since. Paula has a B.S. from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in Kinesiology, with a minor in Corporate Fitness.
