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.
AUTM is a network of more than 3,200 technology transfer professionals around the world.
The reunion will give former patients and their families an opportunity to reconnect with staff who cared for them.
April is National Donate Life Month to spotlight the need for more families to be aware of the critical, ongoing need for organ donation.
The second annual Sustainable Smart Cities Symposium will be April 3.
This year's guest speaker is Donna Arnett, Ph.D., president of the American Heart Association.
The goal is to bring attention to cerebral palsy in the local community.
A “Wicked Problem” has been described as a highly complex problem to which potential solutions require both creative and interdisciplinary thinking.