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.

In this preliminary analysis, the study treatment neither built up in organs and nor destroyed the bone marrow’s ability to make blood cells.

The event is sponsored by the UAB Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine and Division of CME.

UAB faculty and alumni will discuss topics in occupational health at this two-day event.

An abnormal heartbeat, known as atrial fibrillation, is associated with memory and thinking problems, according to new published research.

A UAB professor offers a checklist for safe play at indoor playgrounds.

Meneses’ research focus is cancer survivorship and interventions to improve quality of life in cancer survivors and their families.

The manual, which has been an important source of forensic dentistry information for more than 20 years, provides comprehensive and up-to-date information.

The Gerontological Society of America is the nation’s largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging.

Genetic marker promises to avert severe side effects for African Americans taking blood thinner.

UAB Neurology adds to evidence that massive, second-wave reaction kills nerve cells.

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