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.
A campuswide forum on the issues surrounding the Trayvon Martin case will be held April 17.
Ledbetter is the sixth UAB recipient of the Critical Languages Scholarship in the last three years.
UAB student investors won a national award with their Green & Gold Fund.
UAB leads national update of RA treatment guidelines.
UAB faculty from several disciplines will be honored for excellence by a national society.
UAB professor joins a national class of nutrition research fellows.
Awards, job benefits and innovative programs help place UAB near the top of in The Scientist magazine’s postdoc rankings.
UAB student engineering group will receive its charter March 30.
Alabama sees a 50 percent increase but rates are the lowest among study sites, which could mean children are not being diagnosed and are not receiving services.
