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.
Recent University of Alabama at Birmingham graduate Holly Williams has received a summer research fellowship at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
As UAB’s second Fulbright winner this year, recent graduate Grace Benton will teach English in Jordan.
The Alabama Vision Alliance has mobilized an emergency eye care bus for those affected by the storms.
UAB School of Nursing faculty go into community to treat tornado-affected people.
Mom celebrates Mother’s Day knowing she gave teen son gift of life twice.
UAB professor and first-generation college graduate makes it her goal to make doctors of her mentees.