Jim Bakken
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Chief Communications Officer, Public Relations
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.
Whether it’s simply waking up on the wrong side of the bed or a bad week at work, feeling down is a form of depression and should be addressed.
The goal is to promote safe transportation of community members to and from work, restaurants and entertainment venues while simultaneously promoting health and reducing crime.
The Collat School of Business hosts evening of reflection on business and civil rights.
The event feature more than 30 speakers, lunch, vendors, a fashion show and door prizes.
The School of Education's Health Education Week will feature a service day at Jones Valley Teaching Farms.
The investigators found that brain connectivity data from 19 paths in brain scans predicted whether the participants had autism, with an accuracy rate of 95.9 percent.
The UAB Collat School of Business partnered with the Alabama Retail Association to mark the 32nd annual Retail Day.
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UAB is home to the foremost Proust expert and houses one of the largest collections in the world.
Littlefield, an expert in advanced computer weapons research, joined UAB in 2005.