Background
Bauer, Theodore James was born on November 18, 1909 in Iowa City. Son of Charles A. and Anna (Braun) Bauer.
Bauer, Theodore James was born on November 18, 1909 in Iowa City. Son of Charles A. and Anna (Braun) Bauer.
Doctor of Medicine, University Iowa, 1933. Bachelor of Science, University Iowa, 1934.
Despite his family having lost both its broom factory and farm during the Great Depression, Bauer was able to work his way through school to earn both his Bachelor of Surgery (1934) and Doctor of Medicine (1933) degrees from the University of Iowa. Upon graduating from the University of Iowa Medical School, Bauer took internships and residencies in Chicago and New York City, furthering his interest in public health epidemiology. Bauer married Helen in 1939.
They had four children.
Bauer"s first major act in his career in the United States Public Health Service was the establishment of a Venereal Disease Center in Chicago in 1942. He went on to serve as Chief of the Division of Venereal Disease in Washington, District of Columbia from 1948 to 1953, and then as Medical Officer in Charge of the Communicable Disease Center (now known as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in Atlanta from 1953 to 1956.
Bauer also served on numerous expert committees for the World Health Organization between 1948 and 1957. Finally, Bauer was Chief of the Bureau for State Services in the United States Public Health Service in Washington, District of Columbia from 1960 to 1962.
In 1962, Bauer went to work for Becton Dickinson and Company, where he was Senior Vice President for Research and Medical Affairs until 1975.
Bauer also served on Becton Dickinson"s Board of Directors from 1965 to 1985. Additionally, Bauer served on numerous expert committees for the American Medical Association, the Wyckoff Board of Health, the planning board for Hackensack University Medical Center, and the New Jersey Governor"s Health Care Administration Board. He died at his home in Wyckoff, New Jersey on May 6, 2005.
He was survived by three children, nine grandchildren, and seven great grandchildren.
Member gov's. advisory council Chronic Sick of New Jersey. Fellow American Public Health Association (chairman program area committee drugs), American Colleges Physicians. Member American Medical Association, American Veneral Disease Association, American Society Hygiene Association (international advisory committee), Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (medical section), American Venereal Disease Association (Distinguished Achievement award 1934-1935), Science Research Society of America (president Communicable Disease Center Branch 1954), American Social Health Association (board directors), National Advisory Community Health Committee, Bergen County Tuberculosis and Health Association (board directors), United States-Mexico Border Public Health Association (honorary life), Association Military Surgeons United States, Bergen County Medical Society, Medical Association New Jersey, Sigma Xi.
Married Helen Mattes, September 1, 1938. Children: Jane Helen Bauer Gray, Virginia Ann Bauer Biedron, Mary Linda Bauer, Martha Jean Bauer.