Todd Davenport

Todd Davenport, PT, DPT, MPH, OCS is Professor and Vice Chair of the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, as well as Scientific Advisor to the Workwell Foundation and Chair of Long Covid Physio. Dr. Davenport is a current PhD by Publication candidate with the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. He graduated with his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from the University of Southern California’s DPT, where he also completed a residency program in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy. Dr. Davenport earned a Master of Public Health degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a past intramural clinical research fellow at Clinical Center of the United States National Institutes of Health, where his work included construction and validation of function-based physical capacity tests for patients with chronic fatiguing illnesses. His ongoing research is concerned with post-exertional malaise (PEM), such as observed in people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis and Long Covid. Specifically, Dr. Davenport’s research involves signs, symptoms, functioning, and systems physiology of PEM.