Position Title
Professor
- Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Dr. Buja is a physician-scientist who is internationally recognized for his expertise cardiovascular pathology
and his research work on the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases. He has held faculty positions at the
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (1974-1989) and the McGovern Medical School of The
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) (1989 to present). He has served in
administrative and leadership positions while pursuing academic and research activities. He has received
peer-reviewed funding for his research from the NIH and other agencies. Dr. Buja has published over 500
research articles and book chapters, three atlases of pathology and a textbook of cardiovascular pathology.
Dr. Buja scientific career has focused on experimental pathology and clinicopathological correlation. This has
included extensive work on the pathogenesis of myocardial ischemic and hypoxic injury.
- 50th Anniversary Lifetime Achievement Award, Tulane Medical School Class of 1967, 2017
- President's Scholar Award for Teaching , Item SubtitleThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 2014
- Distinguished Achievement Award, Society for Cardiovascular Pathology, 2009
- Outstanding Alumnus Award, Tulane Medical Alumni Association, 2008
- Distinguished Teaching Professor, The University of Texas System, 2007
- George T. Caldwell Distinguished Service Award, Texas Society of Pathologists, 2005
- Chancellor's Healt Fellow in Education, The University of Texas System, 2004
- Cell injury
- Cardiovascular pathology
- Member and Fellow, International Society for Heart Research (ISHR), 1986
- Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), 1983
- Member, American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP), 1975
- Member, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP), 1974
- Member, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1969