Our office is centrally located in the medical center of San Antonio, Texas (population of 1.5 million). Our office building is attached to a general medical/surgery hospital, Methodist Specialty & Transplant Hospital, with 3 psychiatric units. Our building has access to laboratories, general practitioners, and specialty physicians for physical exams and blood and urine samples. We conduct outpatient trials only. Our center uses a Central Review Board. We have an ECG machine, clinical freezing unit, refrigerated unit, locked study drug storage, and a dedicated Monitor area in house.

Since 1986 The Croft Group Research Center has participated in 50 + clinical trials, including the following:

• Major Depression 22
• Insomnia Related to Major Depression Disorder 1
• Recurrent Depression 3
• Treatment Resistance Depression 2
• General Anxiety Disorder 9
• Insomnia Related to Generalized Anxiety Disorder 2
• Social Anxiety Disorder 1
• Social Phobia 1
• Panic Disorder 1
• Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder 4
• Sexual Dysfunction Associated with AD 2
• Alzheimer’s Disease 1
• Bipolar 1
• Migraine Headache 2
• Seizure 1
• Smoking Cessation 1

We would welcome trials on ADD. We have worked with the following sponsors: Labopharm, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Astrazeneca, Sanofi-aventis, Avera, Sepracor, Forest, Cephalon, GlaxoSmithKline, Organon, Eli Lilly, Merck, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Ortho-McNeil, Pfizer, Novartis, TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Parke-Davis, Glaxo Wellcome, SmithKline Beecham, Burroughs Wellcome, and Merrell-Dow. The CRO’s that we have worked with include: Quintiles, Covance, Omnicare, Phoenix-MDS Pharma Services, INC Research, Lineberry, Constella Group, PPD, and i3 Research.

Our office is centrally located in the medical center of San Antonio, Texas (population of 1.5 million). Our office building is attached to a general medical/surgery hospital, Methodist Specialty & Transplant Hospital, with 3 psychiatric units. Our building has access to laboratories, general practitioners, and specialty physicians for physical exams and blood and urine samples. We conduct outpatient trials only. Our center uses a Central Review Board. We have an ECG machine, clinical freezing unit, refrigerated unit, locked study drug storage, and a dedicated Monitor area in house.

Harry A. Croft, triple Board Certified in Psychiatry, addiction medicine and sex therapy heads our research staff and acts as Principle Investigator in all trials. He graduated from University of Texas Medical Branch in 1973. He did a partial residency in OB-GYN before completing his psychiatric training.

The Research Center has a staff of 3 full time coordinators and 1 full time assistant coordinator. The 3 coordinators share over 23 years of clinical trial experience and are all active in providing patient care

Kimberly Howerton is the head Clinical Research Coordinator with 10+ years of experience. She handles administration and financial aspects of the center, along with advertising.

Sandra Uresti is a Clinical Research Coordinator with 8+ years of experience. She performs rating scales for the center and also heads up our recruiting department.

Jill Garcia is a Clinical Research Coordinator with 5+ years of experience. She handles regulatory for the center.

Elisa Thompson is our assistant coordinator who handles scheduling.

Our study population to date is as follows:

• Ages 18-65
• 60% female, 40% male
• 10% Hispanic, 85% Caucasian, 3% Black, 2% Other

Our center uses a Central Review Board

CenterWatch is listing the following trials that are actively recruiting patients at this center.

• Are you DEPRESSED?
• Do You Worry all the time?
• Do You Worry all the time?

For more information, please contact:

Jill K. Garcia
Clinical Research Coordinator
Croft Group Research Center
8038 Wurzbach Rd., Suite 570
Physician Plaza I
San Antonio, TX 78229 USA
Phone: 210-692-1222 x 107
Fax: 210-692-9994
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Last updated on August 21, 2008