Research Grants

         Eyes-opened Alpha Biofeedback Training for Self-Regulation of Stress. Principal Investigator. Submitted to the University of Rhode Island Council for Research, 1990. Funded, $3,000.

         Alpha Wave Training and High Risk Children of Alcoholics. Principal Investigator. Submitted to the Office of Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 1993. Unfunded.

         The Third Annual Southern New England Palliative Care Conference Grant-R13. Principal Investigator. Submitted to the Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 1997. Funded, $10,000.

         Wacker, MS, Glen, VL. Pain Resource Professional Training Program. Unrestricted educational grant from Knoll Pharmaceutica. October 1998-$10,720; April 1999-$10,000.

         Wacker, MS, Glen, VL. Pain Resource Professional Training Program. Unrestricted educational grant from Janssen Pharmaceutica. October 1998-$5,000; April 1999-$5,000.

         Wacker, MS, Glen, VL. Pain Resource Professional Training Program . Unrestricted educational grant from Roxane Laboratories. April 1999-$5,000.

         Wacker, MS. Pain Resource Professional Training Program. May, 2000 Unrestricted educational grants from Purdue-$2,500, from Merck-$1,500, from Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc.-$1,500.

         Wacker, MS. Pain Resource Professional Training Program. October, 2000 Unrestricted educational grants from Purdue. $5,000, from Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc., $1,000, from Searle $1,000.

         Wacker, MS. Pain Resource Professional Training Program. May, 2001 Unrestricted educational grants from Janssen Pharmaceutica Inc., $1000, $1,000 from Merck, $1,200 from Purdue.

         Wacker, MS. Attorney General Conference on Pain Assessment and Management May, 2001. Unrestricted educational grants of $1,400 from Janssen Pharmaceutica, $1,200 from Purdue and $1,000 from Merck.

         Wacker, MS. May, 2001. Unrestricted educational grant from Merck for the production of a laminated pain management card. $700.

         SUCCEED Florida Grant, Nursing. 2005-2007, Workforce educational grant from Florida Department of Education, $629,500.

         Jobs for Florida's Future, Florida Department of Education. 2005 – 2006, $186,302.

         Promise of Nursing Grant. 2006-2007, $25,000

         Booth Foundation. 2006 – 2009, $3,238,230

         SUCCEED Florida Grant, Nursing. 2008-2009, Workforce educational grant from Florida Department of Education, $259,018.

         Community Job-Based Training Grant, Nursing. 2005 – 2008, US Department of Labor, $556,724.