EPIC MEDICAL CONCEPTS & INNOVATIONS - Key Persons


Dr. Steven Barlow

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair, Corwin Moore Professor
Steven Barlow joined the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders in 2014 as the Corwin Moore Professor after working at the University of Kansas for more than 13 years. He began his tenure as chair of the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders in July 2021. His research is collaborative in nature and focuses on the neurobiology of somatosensory and motor systems in premature infants. Steven developed the NTrainer System, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2008, and uses its innovative pulsed cutaneous stimulation during critical periods of development to facilitate oral feeding skills, overall brain development and long-term behavioral and learning outcomes. Most recently, Steven was awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He will use the grant funding to lead a five-year, multi-site study that will examine 180 preterm infants born between 24-27 weeks at neonatal intensive care units at CHI Health St. Elizabeth in Lincoln, Tufts Medical Center in Boston, and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California. This new study will be the first of its kind to explore the ability of the NTrainer's stimulation to trigger positive genetic changes as related to six target genes in the infants. A variant of Steven's NTrainer therapy approach using dynamic somatosensory fields is now being tested as an agent of brain plasticity in adults who have sustained cerebrovascular stroke. New study lines at UNL will focus on neural encoding of velocity and direction of saltatory somatosensory inputs using a new medical device developed in the Steven's lab, known as the TAC-Cell Array or ‘Galileo'. The main objectives are to improve neurodiagnostics and neurotherapeutics to improve the well-being of the affected individual across the lifespan, including improved speech and swallowing motor control, and when involved, rehabilitate sensorimotor control of distal extremities (hand, object manipulation). Areas of Expertise: Neurobiology of preterm infant, feeding, gene expression Experience- and activity-dependent plasticity across the lifespan Dr. Steven Barlow worked closely with Epic Medical Concepts & Innovations (EMCI) to establish the design parameters for the Galileo™. As a key member of EMCI's Advisory Board, Dr. Barlow helps EMCI to stay abreast of the various and evolving needs of researchers. Dr. Barlow has over a decade of experience in using the Galileo™ in his own research.

James R. Lucas

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus / Chairman & CEO, EMCI ( Galileo™ Owner ) Epic Medical Concepts & Innovations, Inc.

Kevin Guo

Job Titles:
  • Beijing Brain Vision Science & Technology Co, Ltd

Mr. Ali Jalinous

Job Titles:
  • Operations Director / Jali Medical, Inc.

Ms. Vanessa Ang

Job Titles:
  • General Sales Manager / MedSci Research & Supply Pte Ltd

Naoki Hirata