Jim Bakken

Jim Bakken

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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.

UAB School of Nursing opens once-closed clinic, offering Bessemer community and The Foundry’s residents affordable care

Study examines how HIV affects the health of women.

Chapman has been on staff since 2008 and has been named chief of neuroradiology

Etty (Tika) Benveniste will be president of the American Society of Neurochemistry through 2015.

A good night’s sleep and filling breakfast means more for your child’s academic performance than you may think.
UAB School of Nursing Nightingale exhibit offers timeless leadership lessons relevant to the future of nursing and health care.
UAB faculty, students care for elderly in state’s only retirement community based full service dental clinic.

The ultimate goal of this work is to use findings to aid the development of an effective HIV vaccine to prevent infection.

The CRFS section reviews NIH grant applications that address population-based studies on the emergence, spread, control and prevention of infectious diseases that affect humans.

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