Identity elements
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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Collection
Title
Louis Maximilian Buja papers
Date(s)
- 1945-2019 (Creation)
Extent
4 cubic feet (4 boxes)
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born December 30, 1942 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended Jesuit High School and then graduated in 1964 from Loyola University with a BS in biology. He earned his MD with honors from Tulane University in 1967, with an additional MS in anatomy in 1968. Dr. Buja worked for the National Institute of Health between 1968 and 1974, when he moved to the department of pathology at the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center in Dallas. In 1989 he was appointed chair of the pathology department of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, where he became dean in 1996.
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Scope and content
Files of professional activities to the TMC Library. Self-published a book with excerpts of various presentations from career. And also a personal family memoir. Photographs, annual reports, material related to his deanship at the UTHSCH, speeches, correspondence, ephemera, and mementos.
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Conditions governing access
Physical access
No limit to physical access.
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright restrictions may apply.
Languages of the material
- English
Scripts of the material
Language and script notes
Finding aids
Inventory 2021 March.
Uploaded finding aid
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Deed-1
Immediate source of acquisition
Dr. Buja delivered 4 boxes to the archive. Deed of gift signed on March 23, 2021.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
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Accruals are possible for this collection.
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Alternative identifier(s)
TARO
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Buja, Louis Maximilian (Subject)
- Stembridge, Vernie A. (Subject)
- University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (Subject)