Professor Don Bailey

BA(Saskatchewan), MSc(Bowling Green), PED(Indiana)

• Visiting Professor from the College of Physical Education, University of Saskatchewan, Canada (Semester 1)

Contact details

Rm 406
Phone: (+61) 7 3365 6981
Fax: (+61) 7 3365 6877
E-mail: donb@hms.uq.edu.au
Personal pages: http://www.usask.ca/kinesiology/faculty_index.php?id=1

Background

Don Bailey obtained his BA in mathematics from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada in 1955. He studied physical education in Ohio and Indiana for four years and obtained his doctorate degree from Indiana University in 1959. Since that time he has been a faculty member in the College of Kinesiology at the University of Saskatchewan, assuming the position of Professor Emeritus in 1994. In 1970 he held a Research Fellowship at the Institute of Child Health, University of London, and in 1978 he received a National Research Scientist Award to pursue childhood physical activity related research at San Diego State University. In 1986 he was named a Visiting National Health Scientist by Health and Welfare Canada and took up his award at the University of Western Australia. In 1988 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland and since 1994 he has maintained this position at UQ for six months each year.

Research Interests

Among his research accomplishments, Prof. Bailey was the Director of the Saskatchewan Child Growth and Development Study during the 1960's and 70's. The results of this 10-year longitudinal investigation of growth and fitness in school age children have had an important impact on school programs of health and physical education in Canada and abroad. Over the years, he has been involved in the development of numerous fitness testing projects and lifestyle surveys dating back to 1964. For the past 15 years he has been investigating the effects of weight-bearing physical activity and loading history on bone mineral acquisition and skeletal integrity in children and young women, as related to skeletal fragility and osteoporosis in later years. He is the principal investigator of a longitudinal Pediatric Bone Mineral Accrual Study started in 1991.

Professional Service

Prof. Bailey's name is synonymous with the Participation movement in Canada, having served on the Board for over 25 years. He is a founding member and Honour Award recipient of the Canadian Association of Sport Sciences (now the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology) and is an Honour Award recipient of the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging and is currently Vice President of the International Council for Physical Activity and Fitness Research (ICPAFR), and an International Fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education.

Selected Publications

Bailey, D. A., McKay, H. A., & Khan, K. M. (2003). Physical activity and bone mineral accrual during childhood and adolescence. American Journal of Medicine and Sports, 5, 23-28.

Baxter-Jones, A.D.G., Mirwald, R.L., McKay, H.A., & Bailey, D.A. (2003). A longitudinal analysis of sex differences in bone mineral accrual in healthy 8 to 19 year old boys and girls. Annals of Human Biology, 30, 160-175.

Thompson, A.M., Baxter-Jones, A.D.G., Mirwald, R.L., & Bailey, D.A. (2003). A generational comparison of the development of fatness during childhood and adolescence. American Journal of Human Biology, 14, 669-679.

Bailey, D. (2002). Sport and the child: Physiological and skeletal considerations. In F. L. Smoll & R. E. Smith (Eds). Children and Youth in Sport: A Biopsychosocial Perspective (pp.293-310). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt.

Beunen, G., Baxter-Jones, A. D. G., Mirwald, R. L., Thomis, M., Lefevre, J., Malina, R. M. & Bailey, D. 2002, Intraindividual allometric development of aerobic power in 8- to 16-year-old boys. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 33(3), 503-510.

Mirwald, R.L., Baxter-Jones, A.D.G., Bailey, D., & Beunen, G. (2002). An assessment of maturity from anthropometric measurements. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 34(4), 689-694.

Bailey, D.A. (2002). Physical activity and bone strength: Old and new perspectives. Acta Kinesiologiae Universitatis Tartuensis, 7, 20-25.

Khan, K., McKay, H., Kannus, P., Bailey, D., Wark, J., & Bennell, K. (2001). Physical Activity and Bone Health. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 275 pp.

Bailey, D.A. (2001). Get it right the first time: The importance of leisure activities during the growing years for skeletal health. In F. Fu & H. Ruskin (Eds.) Physical Activity in the Context of Leisure Education (pp. 78-86). Hong Kong Baptist University Press.

Iuliano, S., Mirwald R.L, Bailey D.A. (2001). The timing and magnitude of peak height velocity and peak tissue velocities for early, average and late maturing boys and girls. American Journal of Human Biology 13: January, 2001.

Bailey D.A. (2000). Is anyone out there listening? Quest 52(4), 344-350.

Bailey, D. A., Martin, A. D., McKay, H. A., Whiting, S., & Mirwald RL (2000). Calcium accretion in girls and boys during puberty: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 15(11), 2245_2250.

McKay, H. A., Petit, M. A., Bailey, D. A., Wallace, W. M., Schutz, R. W., & Khan, K. M. (2000). Analysis of proximal femur DXA scans in growing children: Comparisons of different protocols for cross-sectional 8-month and 7-year longitudinal data. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 15, 1181_1188.

Bailey, D. A., McKay, H. A., Mirwald, R. L., Crocker, P.E., & Faulkner, R.A. (1999). The University of Saskatchewan Bone Mineral Accrual Study: A six year longitudinal study of the relationship of physical activity to bone mineral accrual in growing children. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 14, 1672_1679.