Liliana Rincon-Gonzalez

Dr. Rincon-Gonzalez leads the Early Feasibility Study initiatives to drive overall EFS efficiency and support continuous assessment of EFS efficiency and effectiveness for US patients. Prior to joining MDIC, Liliana worked as a Research Assistant Professor and as a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). Here she provided scientific and regulatory support to Investigators and staff on clinical and research projects. During her tenure at FIU, she was both a scientist and the clinical research coordinator for an investigator-initiated First-in-Human Early Feasibility Study for a Class III medical device funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense. Liliana coordinated scientists, engineers, clinicians, prosthetists and staff to successfully implant and to test the first fully implantable and wireless neurostimulator designed to provide the sense of touch and hand opening to an upper limb amputee fitted with a sensorized prosthetic hand.

In addition, Liliana has over 10 years’ experience designing, managing and running biomedical and neuroscience research with human participants as well as experience with human subject protections and IRB submissions. She has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles related to understanding how individuals process body-posture and tactile signals with the purpose of designing neurostimulators to provide sensory feedback to patients.

Liliana earned her BA in Psychology, BSE in Bioengineering, MS in Biomedical Engineering and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. She is currently a primary IRB Member at the Health Sciences Panel at Florida International University.