Neal A. Bowen, Ph.D.

Dr. Neal Bowen is a psychologist, with advanced degrees from The University of Texas at Austin, and training in the VA system. On the heels of international work and an educational career in Europe, Central America and Southeast Asia, Dr. Bowen, while completing his doctorate, founded a mental health clinic for refugees and immigrants in Texas. He then was a member of the faculty at Central Washington University, maintaining a research agenda on human migration and cultural competence. He joined the HMS team in 2005, with the task of building both a specialty mental health care service line, and helping to integrate primary care with dental, behavioral health, and family support services. In his over 12 years providing leadership, the Mental Health Department has grown from 1.6 FTE to 31 providers in 10 facilities. The Department maintains a positive financial balance, contributing well over $1 Million annually to the agency bottom line, while also maintaining a high degree of satisfaction among employees, and recognition for sustained attention to high quality service delivery to patients and the communities served by HMS. Hidalgo Medical Services, in addition to being a Federally Qualified Health Center, is also the Community Mental Health Clinic, and the Health Home for its rural and frontier service area in the Southwest corner of New Mexico. He has served on the Board of Directors of the New Mexico Primary Care Association, and currently sits on the Executive Board of the New Mexico Behavioral Health Provider Association. From these positions he has worked to sustain and improve the quality of the statewide healthcare service delivery system, and was recognized as the New Mexico Behavioral Health Provider of the Year for 2011.