Jim Bakken

Jim Bakken

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jimb@uab.edu • (205) 934-3887
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.

After the screening, there will be a community discussion led by the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama.

The life and legacy the late Maryann Manning will be remembered in a special service.
UAB announces record enrollment which includes increases in total enrollment, as well as enrollment among freshmen, undergrads, master’s students and transfers.

UAB announces gift, set to name School of Business after Charles and Patsy Collat, the university’s biggest benefactors.

Believed to be eradicated from the United States in 2000, measles are brought into the country and can infect those who are not vaccinated.

Dawson is one of five finalists selected to present an abstract at The Obesity Society’s annual meeting

Howard is a co-principal investigator (co-PI) for the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study.

Former CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien to speak at UAB about diversity.

Study is first to reveal the role of the kidney in the regulation of iron metabolism following injury.
New UAB research shows while there’s an association between breakfast habits and obesity, some practices by scientists have led the evidence for a causal claim to be exaggerated.
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