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.
Educators and writers will come together March 3 for a conference.
Powers was named an associate professor emeritus in business.
Twieg has been named a professor emeritus in biomedical engineering.
Ideker has been named a professor emeritus in cardiovascular disease.
Brouillette has been named a research professor emerita in chemistry.
Pappas will be the inaugural holder of an endowed professorship in infectious diseases.
Allison will hold an endowed professorship in the School of Public Health.
Rosenthal will hold a chair and become division director of otolaryngology.
Peters will hold a chair in otolaryngology surgery.