© 2005 Behavioral Health Research Institute of the Southwest
612 Encino Place NE / Albuquerque, NM 87102 / 505.244.3099 / www.bhrcs.org

The Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest is located at 612 Encino Place, NE, in Albuquerque at the intersection of two major Southwest freeways that bisect New Mexico. BHRCS owns its premises, which is located in the Encino Place/Medical Arts office neighborhood close to the University of New Mexico. The area is an established medical community that is convenient to the interstates, the airport, and three of the area's largest hospitals and emergency facilities, including a trauma center.

The office is approximately 5,000 square feet, consisting of a large reception area with an adjoining library/conference room. Additional rooms consists of a laboratory, multiple exam rooms, a 500-square-foot conference hall with adjoining media room, 12 private offices, a kitchenette/break room with an outdoor dining patio, a business office, multiple work stations, an office machine/communications venue, and a computer server room. The property contains thirty-four parking spaces with mature landscaping.

The clinical research facility housed within BHRCS contains a private office for the Certified Clinical Research Coordinator, two exam rooms and a patient-interview/intake room. The laboratory is a secured area equipped with phlebotomy equipment, a centrifuge, two refrigerators and a stand-alone freezer for biological specimens.

BHRCS/PIRE maintains in-house computing capabilities for all aspects of research design, implementation, and analysis. Each staff person has a personal computer loaded with Microsoft XP Pro or Windows 2000 and Microsoft Office 2003 (including Word, Excel, Access, and Power Point). Key staff persons also have NVivo 7, SPSS 10.0 and SAS 9.1. All computers are networked to each other and to high-speed printers, as well as equipped with high-speed Web access and e-mail. In addition, several research databases have been developed and are maintained by computer analysts, including a DWI screening program of over 13,000 DWI offenders, a screening program of 500+ juvenile offenders, a follow-up study of female DWI offenders 5 years after screening, and a database developed for a CSAP-funded Workplace Managed Care cooperative agreement. A separate database contains abstracts of over 10,000 research articles. The database managers use dBase IV and Microsoft Access.

For additional information about BHRCS/PIRE resources and facilities, please see Facilities, Other Resources, and Equipment.