About
Alessandro Villa, DDS, Ph.D., M.P.H., is chief of oral medicine, oral oncology and dentistry at Baptist Health Herbert Wertheim Cancer Institute. Dr. Villa specializes in treating oral mucosal and salivary gland diseases, oral precancers and oral complications from cancer treatment. He is fluent in English and Italian. Prior to joining Herbert Wertheim Cancer Institute in 2022, Dr. Villa was an attending physician at the University of California San Francisco, Medical Center and an associate clinical professor of oral medicine and otolaryngology at University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He also directed the oral medicine residency programs at UCSF and Harvard. While at UCSF, he...