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.
New project between UAB’s 1917 Clinic and Birmingham AIDS Outreach will seek HIV patients who have fallen out of care and get them back in.
UAB study finds college students surfing mobile Internet while crossing street more than twice as likely to be hit or have a close call.
UAB researchers find spiritual coping a predictor of mental health in chronically ill youth; recommend clinicians assess spirituality.
Krishna is also the director of the Central Alabama High Field NMR Facility.
Goodin was one of four researchers nationally to win a grant.
Tucker had previously served as chair of another American Psychological Association board.
Victor Darley-Usmar also directs the UAB Center for Free Radical Biology.
Healthcare Leadership Academy provides year-long challenges to cultivate career success.
Celeste Stuart is one of 51 students nationally to win the scholarship.