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.
A UAB internal medicine expert says sporadic cases of flu are appearing and with a vaccine already available, it is best to get immunized now.
Awards and scholarships were established in the schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Public Health and the College of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Bourge have helped establish three endowed research funds.
Wooldridge earned her master of science in clinical nutrition from UAB in 1981.
Salter earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from UAB and returned as a faculty member in 1978.
Classé served in the U.S. Marine Corps before earning his legal degree in 1977 and his doctor of optometry degree from UAB in 1978.
Chow was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences as a foreign associate in 2012.
He received the UAB President’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2011.
The Dr. Jimmy Bartlett Endowed Alumni Optometry Scholarship was made possible through gifts in Bartlett’s honor by the UAB School of Optometry Alumni Association.
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