Practitioners

Margaret Allen worked in rural communities for a year in Chiapas, Mexico before graduating from Stanford¹s Primary Care Associate Program in 1992. She worked with homeless programs in San Jose, and local community clinics before joining the staff of RFHC in 2003. During a sabbatical in England in 2001-2, she studied Social Policy, lectured, and worked as Clinical Research Fellow for the National Health Service. She is a volunteer teacher at Stanford¹s Primary Care Associate Program and the Arbor Free Clinic.

Lisa Lestishock splits her time between Ravenswood Family Health Center and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, where she works on their mobile clinic and specializes in the care of high-risk and homeless adolescents. She completed nurses training at Villanova University and Advanced Practice Pediatric Nursing at University of California, San Francisco.

A registered nurse since 1981, completed Masters in Nurse Midwifery at Georgetown University in 1990. Practiced as a certified nurse midwife with the Harvard Community Health Plan until coming to Packard Children's Hospital in 1997 where she provides nurse midwifery care to patients of the hospital and Ravenswood Family Health Center.

Rebecca is a graduate of Yale University School of Medicine Physician Associate program and is a Board certified Physician Assistant in Primary Care and Surgery. She has 20 years experience in gynecology, adolescent medicine, primary care and orthopedic surgery.

She has been on staff at the Lahey Clinic near Boston, and a long-time staff member of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate where she was Lead Clinician and Trainer.

Amy Wolfe joined the staff of RFHC in December 2001 and has provided primary care services to adult patients since the day the clinic opened. She received her Masters in Public Health from UCLA and then worked for six years as a research intern at UCSF Center for Reproductive Health Policy. She completed her second Masters degree in the UCSF Family Nurse Practitioner in 2000. After graduation she spent 7 months working in Ecuador in both rural and urban settings.

After receiving a Master's as a Family Nurse Practitioner from the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Maia worked in Urgent Care at San Francisco General. She is also experienced in community-based bilingual health care, including serving as an FNP in the Women's Clinic at Mission Neighborhood Health Center in San Francisco and in the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit at Contra Costs Regional Medical Center, Martinez, CA.

Gabriela received a BA in Social Welfare in 1995 from UC Berkeley. After graduation, she worked as a social worker with dual diagnosed in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. She then decided to pursue a degree in Medical Microbiology in 1999 to prepare for a nursing career. In 2004 she graduated from the University of San Francisco's Nurse Practitioner's Master's program. Prior to joining RFHC, she worked as a Family Nurse Practitioner for a rural community health center in Bakersfield, CA.

Jocelyn came to RFHC from UCSF Cihildren's Hospital where she was an Inpatient Clinical RN, working with children and their families. From 2003 to 2006 she volunteered time with the Flying Samaritans Medical Group, working as a translator and medical assistant. She graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in July 2006 and received her BA in Human Biology from Stanford University in 2004. She was a recipient of the Robert C. Byrd Honors Award for Academic Excellence (6/2000 to 6/2004).

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