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.
The lecture is one of several events in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences’ Civil Rights Commemorative series.
Previous data has shown that areas of the south — specifically Mississippi and Alabama – are the fattest in the U.S. But new data from the REGARDS study proves this wrong.
New marker predicts how resistant each patient’s brain cancer will be to chemotherapy.
Goodin, director of the UAB Biobehavioral Pain Research Lab, is a clinical health psychologist who specializes in pain-related behavioral medicine.
Schwebel, director of the UAB Youth Safety Lab, researches the prevention of unintentional injuries of children and adolescents.
UAB Psychiatry is quickly becoming a top-10 program for mood disorders research and care with six new faculty since January 2012.
Leah Berkebile named Clinton Scholar; UAB sophomore with plans to practice medicine in the Middle East is designing an Arabic studies minor.
UAB Collat School of Business streamlines, modernizes MBA program, after years of research, with strategic course progression, specialty concentrations and collaborative student consortiums.