Dr. Alessandro Villa | Source | Chief of Oral Medicine, Oral Oncology and Dentistry at Miami Cancer Institute...

Dr. Alessandro Villa is the Chief of Oral Medicine, Oral Oncology and Dentistry at Miami Cancer Institute. He was previously Chief of Oral Medicine at UCSF and Program Director for the oral medicine residency. Dr. Villa is board-certified in Oral Medicine. After graduating with a DDS from the University of Milano, Italy, he obtained his Master of Public Health from AT Still University, MO and earned a PhD from the University of Sassari, Italy. He also served as a post-doctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute, NIH where he studied the oral HPV prevalence in a large population and methods of early detection of oral cancer. Dr. Villa earned his Certificate in Oral Medicine from Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Brigham and Women's Hospital and served as the Program Director for the Oral Medicine Program there before coming to UCSF.