 
L. Maximilian Buja, M.D.
Executive Vice President
Office for Academic Affairs
L.
Maximilian Buja, M.D., is Executive Vice President for
Academic Affairs at The University of Texas Health Science Center at
Houston, a position he assumed in July 2003 after serving as Dean of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston from April 1996. He earned a B.S. degree in biology, graduating magna cum laude from
Loyola University of the South, New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1964. In
1967, he earned a M.D. degree with honors from Tulane University School
of Medicine in New Orleans and in 1968 he received a M.S. degree in
anatomy from Tulane’s graduate school. From 1967-1968, Dr. Buja served a medicine internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. From 1968-1970, he was a staff associate in the pathology section of the National Heart and Lung Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. From 1970-1972, he was a resident in pathology with the National Cancer Institute and from 1972-1974 a senior investigator at the National Heart and Lung Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. In 1972, he was certified in anatomic pathology by the American Board of Pathology, and was recertified in 1997. Dr. Buja joined the Department of Pathology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas in 1974 as an assistant professor in pathology. In 1981, he was appointed a professor of pathology and was selected to hold the A.J. Gill Professorship of Pathology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He became chairman of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 1989 and served in this role until he was appointed Dean of the Medical School in 1996. He holds the Distinguished Chair in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. In 2000, Dr. Buja was appointed Chief of Cardiovascular Pathology at the Texas Heart Institute. In 2001, he was appointed Consultant in Cardiovascular Pathology at the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office and Joseph A. Jachimczyk Forensic Center. Dr. Buja was appointed as the first Chancellor's Health Fellow in Education (U.T. System) in April 2004.
Dr. Buja is a member of numerous scientific societies and has served as President of the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology (1987-1988), the Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists (1995-1996), and the Texas Society of Pathologists (1998). He is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Pathology (associate editor), Experimental and Molecular Pathology, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Texas Heart Institute Journal, and Journal of Burns. Dr. Buja has served on several committees of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the Cardiology Advisory Committee of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (1980-1984) and the Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Study Section (1985-1989; Chair, 1987-1980). Dr. Buja has been active in the American Heart Association having served as a member and chair of the Texas Affiliate's Central research Review Committee (1976-1980, 1981-1988) and in other capacities. He served as a member of the Residency Review Committee for Pathology of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) from 1994-1999. In 2000, he was appointed as a Director of the ACGME and he currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. Dr. Buja was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas medical Center Library in 2003 and is currently serving as Chair of the Board for Fiscal Year 2005-2006. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Board. In 1997, Dr. Buja received the Harlan J. Spjut Award presented by the Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists, and in 2005, he received the Award of Merit from the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology in 1998. In 2001, Dr. Buja was selected as a Founding Fellow of the International Society for Heart Research and a Fellow of the American Heart Association. He became a member of the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., in 2002. In 2005, Dr. Buja was elected President of the newly established U.T. Academy of Health Science Education.
Dr. Buja is a physician-scientist who continues to participate in teaching and medical practice. He is internationally recognized for his research in cardiovascular pathology, with particular interests in the pathobiology of cardiomyocyte injury as well as the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, ischemic heart disease and cardiomyopathies. Dr. Buja is an author of over 275 research articles, 120 review articles, editorials and other publications, 97 book chapters, two books in the field of cardiovascular medicine, and a recently published atlas, Netter's Illustrated Human Pathology.
Married
to the former Donna Steele Kinney, the Buja’s have three children,
Maximilian, Evan and Gregory.
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