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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.
McIver will be a professor emerita.
Founder of the Birmingham Poetry Review named to emeritus position.
Leesar will be the inaugural holder of an endowed professorship in cardiology.
Two departments will be replaced within the School of Dentistry.
Nanda lauded for his pioneering contributions to the field of cardiovascular medicine.
Emeritus professor given lifetime achievement award.