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.
The School of Medicine will now have a urology department.
Quilt display, picnic mark National Donate Life Month for area organ donors and recipients.
Half of Alabama’s 2012 Goldwater Scholars studying at UAB.
Master's student wins summer travel grant to further biomedical engineering work.
Industrial distribution scholarship goes to UAB business student.
Biology senior named to USA Today academic list.
Grant will fund UAB pathobiology student's research for three years.
School of Nursing will host its annual scholarship fundraising event.