Jim Bakken
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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.
Experienced science editor joins Media Relations to help promote the $460 million research enterprise.
UAB Health System inducted into the Healthcare Intranet Conference's Hall of Fame, among other honors at event.
Several UAB schools hosted health-care professionals from Zambia and Malawi in November.
The UAB School of Engineering honors 40 engineers to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
UAB's cardiopulmonary rehab program has been reaccredited by a national peer-review association.
UAB earns the American Heart Association's new Worksite Innovation award, wellness recognition.
Carpenter, a Teach for America teacher and recent White House intern, will study the relationship between education and poverty.
Shopping is overtaking eating as the national pastime for Thanksgiving. Are shoppers being urged to gorge themselves unnecessarily?