Alessandro Villa, DDS, MPH, PhD

Assoc Prof Clinical Oral Med
D_OFS

Dr. Alessandro Villa is the Chief of the Sol Silverman Oral Medicine Clinic at UCSF where he also serves as program director for the Oral Medicine Residency program. 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. 

Dr. Villa's research interests are focused primarily on the management of oral potentially malignant disorders and oral complications from cancer treatment. In addition, he is working to reduce the burden of HPV associated oropharyngeal cancers through educational campaigns. Dr. Villa has contributed to the oral medicine literature with numerous journal articles and book chapters and is a peer reviewer for several professional journals. His clinical interests include treatment of oral mucosal diseases, salivary gland disorders and oral complications from cancer therapy.  

Publications

The 2024 International Society of Oral Oncology-Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer-American Society of Clinical Oncology guidelines for the prevention and management of osteoradionecrosis of the jaw: Summary and implications for dental

Journal of the American Dental Association (1939)

Smith DK, Villa A, Koyfman SA, Yarom N, Lynggaard CD, Ismaila N, Forner LE, Fuller CD, Mowery YM, Murphy BA, Watson E, Yang DH, Alajbeg I, Bossi P, Fritz M, Futran ND, Gelblum DY, King E, Ruggiero S, Wu JS, Peterson DE, Saunders D

International Expert-Based Consensus Definition, Classification Criteria, and Minimum Data Elements for Osteoradionecrosis of the Jaw: An Inter-Disciplinary Modified Delphi Study.

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics

Moreno AC, Watson EE, Humbert-Vidan L, Peterson DE, van Dijk LV, Urbano TG, Van den Bosch L, Hope AJ, Katz MS, Hoebers FJP, Wesson RAA, Bates JE, Bossi P, Dayo AF, Doré M, Fregnani ER, Galloway TJ, Gelblum DY, Hanna IA, Henson CE, Kiat-Amnuay S, Korfage A, Lee NY, Lewis CM, Lynggaard CD, Mäkitie AA, Magalhaes M, Mowery YM, Muñoz-Montplet C, Myers JN, Orlandi E, Patel J, Rigert JM, Saunders D, Schoenfeld JD, Selek U, Somay E, Takiar V, Thariat J, Verduijn GM, Villa A, West N, Witjes MJH, Won A, Wong ME, Yao CMKL, Young SW, Al-Eryani K, Barbon CEA, Buurman DJM, Dieleman FJ, Hofstede TM, Khan AA, Otun AO, Robinson JC, Hum L, Johansen J, Lalla R, Lin A, Patel V, Shaw RJ, Chambers MS, Ma D, Singh M, Yarom N, Mohamed ASR, Hutcheson KA, Lai SY, Fuller CD, International ORAL Consortium

Mapping oral medicine (stomatology) & oral and maxillofacial pathology international organizations: a scoping review of global data and historical analysis.

Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology

Esteves-Pereira TC, Santana Dos Santos E, Hanemann JAC, Vargas PA, Lopes MA, van Heerden WFP, Bissonnette C, Panico RL, González-Arriagada WA, Nava-Villalba M, Gallagher KPD, Bologna-Molina R, Saldivia-Siracusa C, Wiriyakijja P, Radhakrishnan RA, Farag AM, Nagao T, Huang YF, Riordain RN, Diniz-Freitas M, Bertin H, Farah CS, Mosqueda-Taylor A, Perez DEDC, Hunter KD, Villa A, Santos-Silva AR

Safety and Preliminary Efficacy of Mesenchymal Stromal Cell (ORBCEL-M) Therapy in Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial (NEPHSTROM).

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN

Perico N, Remuzzi G, Griffin MD, Cockwell P, Maxwell AP, Casiraghi F, Rubis N, Peracchi T, Villa A, Todeschini M, Carrara F, Magee BA, Ruggenenti PL, Rota S, Cappelletti L, McInerney V, Griffin TP, Islam MN, Introna M, Pedrini O, Golay J, Finnerty AA, Smythe J, Fibbe WE, Elliman SJ, O'Brien T, NEPHSTROM Trial Consortium