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 event, which features live talks in the spirit of the TED experience, is themed “Rediscover the Magic of Birmingham."
Steven Austad, Ph.D., is the new chair of the Department of Biology.
“Walking the Camino” is an up-close look at pilgrims from all walks of life as they attempt to cross country on foot along the path of the Camino de Santiago.
UAB marks the grand opening of Alabama’s largest nuclear magnetic resonance facility.
Weakened immune systems due to diseases like cancer cause increased risk of severe complications from the flu virus — experts advise vaccine shot, not mist.
PNP Therapeutics, UAB and Southern Research Institute work abolishes otherwise unmanageable human cancers in preclinical rodent studies.
