Jim Bakken
| This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.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.
Safford is also the Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education.
Huh holds appointments in the Center for AIDS Research and the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Straughn first joined UAB in 2000.
Bourge was the inaugural holder of the former professorship.
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Emfinger will discuss “Family Acceptance and Mental Health Outcome for LGBTQ Youth.”
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