"Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege." ^®

 ^{Since 1967}

Executive Team
Board
HAFCI Fellows
Volunteers

Governing Board of Directors

Ben Ostapuk, Chair (2006)
Ben is a patent litigation partner in the San Francisco office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he is also pro bono coordinator and a member of the firm's Diversity Committee. A resident of San Francisco since coming to Stanford Law School in 1993, Ben's first contacts with Haight Ashbury Free Clinics was through Rock Med and friends who received health care at the clinic.

Ben's mother, Virginia Yrun, was Executive Director of Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona throughout his youth, and this ingrained in him the critical need for universal access to health care. Ben's life experiences as a Latino, with those battling mental health disease, and with those caught in the wheels of the War on Drugs, have committed him to advancing the programs and servicing the communities which Haight Asbury Free Clinics champions.

Eric Flowers, Vice Chair (2001)
As President and Chief Executive Officer of Public Health Service Bureau, Flowers has accumulated the wisdom and capacity to excel in volunteer activities. Since his appointment to the Board in 2001, he has used his extensive experience in public health delivery, contracts, and business management to instill best practices in the Clinics’ governance and operations. An East Bay leader, University of California, Berkeley graduate and M.B.A., Flowers exemplifies the very best in volunteer leadership and capacity.

Marguerite Meade, Board Secretary (2008)
Marguerite is a lifelong resident of the San Francisco Bay Area.  She graduated from U.C. Berkeley and Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.  Currently, Marguerite is a senior attorney at The Davis Law Firm in San Francisco where she specializes in employment law. Marguerite has long been interested in health care issues, especially those that affect the uninsured. Marguerite has long advocated Haight Ashbury Free Clinics philosophy that "health care is a right, not a privilege".

Patrick Tan (2006)
Patrick is the Senior Vice President of Finance for Ramsell Holding Corporation. Patrick’s prior professional experience includes high-level accounting and finance projects at various private and non-profit organizations.

In addition to his professional experience, Patrick is an active volunteer working with the Internal Revenue Service VITA program for people who need assistance with the preparation of their tax returns, providing tutoring for local junior and high school music programs, and coaching in the local community youth soccer league.

Patrick holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Humboldt State University, and an MBA from California State University in Hayward.  He became a Certified Public Accountant in 1998 and has been active in the California Society of CPAs and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Todd Choy (2007)
Todd has over 20 years of experience in finance, accounting and administration in both large corporations (Gap and Nestle) and venture backed start-up companies in the consumer packaged goods and healthcare space. He is currently the CFO of Medem, Inc. where he oversees the accounting, finance, human resources, and administrative operations. Todd also assumes a business development role in securing value added resellers (VARS) and electronic medical record vendors (EMR). He is the Company's Secretary and Treasurer for the Board.

Todd is a member of the Board of Advisors of Angry Coffee Inc., a digital music firm, a member of the executive advisory roundtable for San Francisco State University, and has been quoted in CFO magazine and ABC news. Todd holds a MBA in Finance from San Francisco State and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting/Finance/Real Estate from UC Berkeley.

Todd is a native San Franciscan and still resides in the City with his wife Jackie and sons Justin and Brandon.

Holly Bratt (2008)
Holly graduated from St. Luke’s School of Nursing and worked as a Registered Nurse for more than ten years in the Intensive Care and Coronary Care Units at St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco. She received her Doctorate of Jurisprudence from San Francisco Law School, graduating with honors. Her license to practice nursing as well as law remains active.

Most recently, Holly served as the Director of Risk Management and Patient Safety for Kaiser Permanente, responsible for the strategic planning, implementation and effectiveness of a comprehensive Risk Management and Patient Safety Program. 

Additionally, Holly has extensive political experience as a consultant and liaison on both local and national campaigns. On a national level, she worked on the advance team for Vice President Al Gore, Tipper Gore, First Lady Hillary Clinton and Governor Gray Davis.

Ryan Howard (2008)
Ryan is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Practice Fusion. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Practice Fusion addresses the complexities and critical needs of today's healthcare environments by providing a revolutionary application and delivery model for physicians and patients at no cost.

Previously, Ryan was the Senior Director of Product Management and Engineering of Saqqara Systems and InterTrade Systems, where he was responsible for the product strategy, roadmap, development and go to market execution. He has also held product marketing and management roles with Netfish Technologies, Iona, Harbinger, Converge, and also worked with Brown and Toland Medical Group in San Francisco to bring their physician community to HIPAA compliance. 

Ryan is a member of the Alliance of CEOs and the Gerson Lehrman Group Councils. In his free time, he enjoys volunteering for the San Francisco SPCA, Habitat for Humanity and the Prison Entrepreneur Program (PEP), as well as composing music, flying, motorcycle riding and Shaolin-Kempo.

Greg Dalton (2008)
Greg is Vice President of The Commonwealth Club of California, where he leads Climate One, a new initiative advancing global warming solutions. For six years he was Chief Operating Officer. Greg spearheaded The Club's first advertising campaign and expanded The Commonwealth Club's  media reach by negotiating content deals with radio and television and he also initiated The Club's popular podcast, which reaches more than 140,000 people in the US and abroad.

Previously, Greg was International Editor at the Industry Standard magazine, he managed the Standard's news bureaus in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires. He was also an editor on the international desk at the Associated Press headquarters in New York. Prior to that he was a correspondent for the South China Morning Post in Beijing and Vancouver, Canada. He also worked for a time at The McNeil-Lehrer News Hour.

Greg holds a B.A. in politics from Occidental College and a master's degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He speaks Mandarin and "kitchen Cantonese."

Scott Winn (2008)
Scott has spent the past 10 years selling enterprise software applications to Fortune 1000 companies.  A graduate of The University of Oregon, Scott holds a B.S in Political Science and Business and is currently a Senior Software Executive at RightNow Technologies focusing on consumer products manufacturers, technology and health care companies.

Oshun Center Manager,
Dr. Verna Chapman-Lewis, and Board Member,
Tim Covington.