Jim Bakken
| This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Chief Communications Officer, Public Relations
As chief communications officer for the University of Alabama at Birmingham and UAB Medicine, Bakken leads teams that set and execute internal and external communications strategy. Prior to joining UAB in 2012, Bakken spent a decade working with a diverse client base at two full-service communications firms. Bakken spent eight years in Nashville at McNeely Pigott and Fox – one of the largest PR firms in the Southeast – prior to launching Peritus Public Relations in Birmingham in 2010. Bakken has served on the board of the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations, is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America and has been a Birmingham Business Journal Top 40 Under 40 honoree.
ASCE chapter will host a disc golf tourney to help fund community projects.
Three UAB researchers win state awards designed to boost economy, increase innovation in Alabama.
National Institute of Nursing Research grant will help combat HIV in the rural Deep South.
Alexandrov was honored for her nursing instruction.
Early childhood education expert Jennifer Kilgo, Ph.D., spoke to a U.N. committee.
Dean Sicking, developer of auto-racing SAFER barriers, to bring lab and research to UAB Nov. 1.
There aren’t many reasons to have an open hysterectomy with today’s robotic surgery options.
Robert E. Palazzo, Ph.D., will be the interim dean of the UAB College of Arts and Sciences.
