California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently announced the appointment of Alicia Montell, DDS, to the Dental Board of California.
Dr. Montell has been director of dental services at the San Francisco Department of Public Health since 2019. Before that, she served as dental director at Santa Rosa Community Health and associate dental director at Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center in Hayward, Calif.
Dr. Montell is a member of the American Dental Association, California Dental Association and the San Francisco Dental Society. She earned her doctor of dental surgery degree from the University of California, San Francisco.