Program Director
Center for Healthy Aging
Center for Aging and Population Health
"A Centers for Disease Control Prevention Program"
Department of Epidemiology
University of Pittsburgh
Graduate School of Public Health
130 N. Bellefield Ave.
Suite 300
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
phone: 412-383-2367
fax: 412-624-2920
email: cbayles@pitt.edu
www.healthyaging.pitt.edu
www.caph.pitt.edu


Research Interests

• Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
• Physical Activity and Aging
• Community Health Education

Research Support

• Principal Investigator
  • Environmental Correlates of Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Healthy Aging Research Network (HAN) Collaboration (RWJ)
  • Walking Promotion Project (AARP)
• Co-Principal Investigator
  • Center for Healthy Aging, A Centers for Disease Control Prevention Research Center (CDC)

Education & Training

• California University of Pennsylvania - B.S. Education, 1973
• University of Pittsburgh - M.A. Education, 1977
• University of Pittsburgh - Ph.D., Exercise Physiology, Health Education, Cardiac Rehabilitation: Specialty, Gerontology, 1986

Selected Publications

CDC Healthy Aging Research Network. "Prevention Research Centers Healthy Aging Research Network". Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy, Submitted and in process (December 2005).

CDC Healthy Aging Research Network. "Engaging Older Adults to Be More Active Where They Live: Audit Tool Development". Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2005.

Center for Healthy Aging, University of Pittsburgh, Issue Brief for the National Council on the Aging's Center for Healthy Aging, "Best Practices to Recruit, Retain and Recover Older Adults in Community Healthcare Programs". Submitted and in process (October 2005).

Center for Healthy Aging, University of Pittsburgh. Issue Brief for the National Council on The Aging's Center for Healthy Aging, "Best Practices in Physical Activity", Number 1, Spring 2004.

Bayles, C. Frail Older Adults: Optimizing Functional Capacity. Exercise Manual For Persons With Chronic Disability and Disease. January 1997 and 2nd edition September 2001.

Bayles, C.; Cochran, K.; Anderson, C. The Psycho-social Aspects of Women With Osteoporosis The Nursing Clinics of North America. March 2000.

Bayles, C. Exercise and Aging: Promoting Optimal Function. Maximizing Human Potential; Quarterly Newsletter of The Aging, Disability and Rehabilitation Network of The American Society On Aging. Spring 1995.

Bayles, C. Booklet :Preventing Falls: What You Should Know. Mercy Hospital, 1995.

Vitti, K.; C. Bayles, W. Carender, J. Prendergast. A Low-Level Strength Training Exercise Program for Frail Elderly Adults Living In An Extended Attention Facility. Aging, Clinical and Experimental Research, Vol. 5, No. 5. October, 1993.

Bayles, C.M.; K.F. Metz, F.J. Robertson, F.L. Goss, J. Cosgrove, D. McBurney. Perceptual Regulation of Prescribed Exercise. J of Cardiopulmonary Rehab 1990;10: 25-31.

Cauley, J.A.; A.M. Petrini, R.E. LaPorte, R.B. Sandler, C.M. Bayles, R.J. Robertson, C.W. Slemenda.The Decline of Grip Strength In The Menopause: Relationship To Physical Activity, Estrogen Use and Anthropometric Factors. J. Chron Dis 1987; 40; 115-20.

Kriska, A.M.; C. Bayles, J.A. Cauley, R.E. LaPorte, R.B. Sandler, G. Pambianco. A Randomized Exercise Trial In Older Women: Increased Activity Over Two Years and The Factors Associated With Compliance. Med Sci Sports Exer 1986; 18 (5);557-62.

Sandler, R.B.; R.E. LaPorte, D. Sashin, J.A. Cauley, C. Bayles, C. Slemenda, A. Petrini, M.Shramm. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Osteoporosis, 1984. The epidemiology of physical activity and postmenopausal bone loss: First year of a clinical trial. ED: C. Christiansen, C.D. Arnaud, B.E.C. Nordin, A.M. Parfitt, W.A. Peck, B.L. Riggs. Glostrup, Denmark, 1984.

LaPorte, R.E.; R.B. Sandler, J.A. Cauley, M.M. Link, C. Bayles, B. Marks. The assessment of physical activity in older women: Analysis of the interrelationship and reliability of activity monitoring, activity surveys and caloric intake/expenditure. J Gerontol 4:394-7, 1983.