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Professor of 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.
June 1964
June, 1967
June, 1968
June, 1968
June, 1970
Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Charity Hospital, New Orleans, LA
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
June, 1972
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
June, 1974
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
1977 - 1981
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas,
Dallas, TX
1981 - 1989
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX
1989
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston,
Houston, TX
1989
Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX
1989 - 1996
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston,
Houston, TX
1996 - 2003
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston,
Houston, TX
2000 - Current
Texas Heart Institute
Houston, TX
2003 - 2009
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX
2009 - 2016
Texas Medical Center Library, Houston, TX
1969
1974
1975
1983
1986
The University of Texas System
2004
Texas Society of Pathologists
2005
The University of Texas System
2007
Tulane Medical Alumni Association
2008
Society for Cardiovascular Pathology
2009
Item SubtitleThe University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
2014
Tulane Medical School Class of 1967
2017
Dr. Buja is a physician-scientist with research interests in cell injury and cardiovascular pathology. He is an author of 490 publications in ORCID. He has produced a substantial cumulative body of work, resulting in 19,397 citations, h-index 74, RG score 50.66 – ResearchGate Data
Dr. Buja has published over 500 scientific articles and book factors resulting in over 19,000 citations. He has h index of 75.