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 accreditation demonstrates UAB’s commitment to delivering the highest quality care for its bariatric surgery patients.
More than 5,000 people responded to the magazines’ online survey and entered the businesses and services they thought were the best in 81 categories.
The conference will address model population/system-based interventions and direct client programs and services that are being implemented throughout the United States.
With this program, 3M’s PSD awards each winner a $5,000 scholarship and attendance to the 2013 American Industrial Hygiene conference & exposition (AIHce) in Montreal, Quebec.
The competition is designed to encourage students to conduct original research and to be reviewed by their peers.
Quarker has more than eight years of combined political and public policy experience.
Bain, in addition to her residency, is finalizing her doctoral dissertation.
John F. Amos, O.D., who joined the UAB faculty in 1972 and served as the School of Optometry dean from 2000-2009, will join elite group of optometrists.
UAB students present a play as part of the community stories captured in The Imaginarium Chronicles service project to remind of the need for dementia care for the aging population.