What Volunteer Clinical Faculty Do: Esker-D Ligon and Glide Health Services

Volunteer clinical faculty and preceptors offer students individual perspectives and hands-on experience in a variety of health care settings and specialties. The cumulative effect of what these volunteers impart plays a significant role in the care any health system delivers. This series aims to shed light on the unique roles these valuable mentors play.

This month, in a photo essay, we hear from Esker-D Ligon, the acting clinic manager at Glide Health Services, a nurse-managed health center in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district and a partnership between UC San Francisco School of Nursing, Glide, and Saint Francis Memorial Hospital. Focused primarily on the neighborhood’s poor and homeless residents, Glide provides a full range of traditional health care services, including mental health, substance abuse and non-Western medicine services. It also has special programs for the testing and prevention of HIV/AIDS and the treatment of diabetes.