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    Natalia Buza, MD

    Professor of Pathology
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    Additional Titles

    Director, Pathology Center of Excellence for Women’s Health, Anatomic Pathology

    Director, Gynecologic Pathology Fellowship Program, Anatomic Pathology

    Director, Women's Health Pathology Fellowship Program, Pathology

    About

    Titles

    Professor of Pathology

    Director, Pathology Center of Excellence for Women’s Health, Anatomic Pathology; Director, Gynecologic Pathology Fellowship Program, Anatomic Pathology; Director, Women's Health Pathology Fellowship Program, Pathology

    Biography

    Dr. Buza is a gynecologic and breast pathologist and Professor of Pathology at Yale School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree in Hungary, followed by residency and fellowship training at Yale University. She joined the faculty at Yale in 2010 where she is currently Director of Women’s Health Pathology and Director of the Gynecologic Pathology and Women’s Health Pathology Fellowship Programs.

    Dr. Buza authored over 160 publications in the field of gynecologic pathology, including several review articles, book chapters, and a textbook on Intraoperative Frozen Section in Gynecologic Pathology. She also contributed to multiple sections of the 5th edition of WHO Classification of Female Genital Tumors.

    Dr. Buza has been course faculty at the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) and United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP), and she is a domain expert of the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR) datasets on Gestational Trophoblastic Tumors and on Endometrial Cancer. Dr. Buza is a section editor of Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and of Pathology and Oncology Research, and an editorial board member of Modern Pathology, International Journal of Gynecological Pathology, and Human Pathology.

    Currently Dr. Buza serves as Secretary of the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists (ISGyP).

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    Other Departments & Organizations

    Education & Training

    Fellowship
    Yale School of Medicine (2010)
    Residency
    Yale University School of Medicine (2009)
    MD
    University of Pecs Med and Health Science Center (1999)

    Research

    Overview

    Medical Research Interests

    Gestational Trophoblastic Disease; Morphological and Microscopic Findings; Ovarian Neoplasms; Pathological Conditions, Anatomical; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms; Uterine Neoplasms; Vulvar Neoplasms

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Natalia Buza's published research.

    Publications

    2025

    2024

    Clinical Trials

    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

    Activities

    • activity

      International Journal of Gynecological Pathology

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      Human Pathology

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      Modern Pathology

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      Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

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      Pathology and Oncology Research

    Honors

    • honor

      The Averill A. Liebow Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Pathology Residents

    Clinical Care

    Overview

    As a pathologist specializing in gynecologic and breast cancers and diseases, Natalia Buza, MD, rarely sees the patients she spends many hours thinking about; her work is done not in an exam room, but behind a high-powered microscope. This doesn’t make her patients any less real, however. Dr. Buza explains that she became a pathologist because “it’s an exciting discipline and so important for patient care.”

    Working closely with gynecologic cancer doctors, Dr. Buza examines samples of patients’ tissue taken for a biopsy to look for signs of endometrial, ovarian and cervical cancers. Once a cancer has been identified, she continues her examination of the cells, specifying the tumor subtype and looking for specific markers at the protein and genetic level that could help the patient’s physician create a personalized cancer treatment plan. Also, she notes, “I do a lot of collaborative research and studies.” For example, she and other colleagues recently investigated the possibility of using targeted anti-HER2 therapy in certain endometrial cancers.

    Dr. Buza is a professor of Pathology and director of the Center for Excellence in Women’s Health Pathology at Yale School of Medicine.

    Clinical Specialties

    Pathology; Anatomic Pathology; Gynecological Pathology

    Get In Touch

    Contacts

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    Locations

    • Department of Pathology

      Academic Office

      Brady Memorial Laboratory

      310 Cedar Street, Wing Lauder Hall, Fl 2nd, Ste LH 219B

      New Haven, CT 06510

      Clinical Inquiry

      203.737.5292
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    Events

    Jun 202514-16Multiple Days