[4] Bauer was the first medical director of the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce which became the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
On October 7, 1929, the Aero Medical Association of the United States was founded by Bauer.
[7] He was married to Helena Meredith Bauer who was a social worker with the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Together they had a son, Charles Theodore Bauer, who was born on March 3, 1919.
It is awarded annually "for the most significant contribution in aerospace medicine".