Alana C. Patrick, PT, DPT, GCS is a staff Physical Therapist at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System with board certification in geriatrics. Since 2020, Alana has provided physical therapy treatment to patients with COVID across the spectrum of care: from ICU to acute care to inpatient rehabilitation unit to outpatient clinic. She co-developed the Minneapolis VA’s outpatient COVID Rehabilitation Clinic to serve veterans experiencing persistent symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Her passion is utilizing evidence-based care plans to facilitate improvement in the physical function and quality of life of veterans recovering from COVID. 

Allison M. Gustavson, PT, DPT, PhD is a Core Investigator in the Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System, and Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Department of Medicine. Dr. Gustavson is founder and co-lead of the Veterans Health Administration Long COVID Community of Practice. Her efforts have focused on systematically engaging stakeholders and supporting a grassroots effort to advocate for high-quality, equitable, and veteran-centered Long COVID care. In addition, she has worked with VA research leadership to provide several briefings on Long COVID care to congress and operational leadership to advocate for the research & policy support necessary to address the complexity and evolving nature of long-COVID care.  

Todd Davenport, PT, DPT, MPH, OCS serves as tenured full Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Physical Therapy in the School of Health Sciences at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Dr. Davenport is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s DPT and Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency programs. Dr. Davenport is also a graduate of the Master of Public Health program at the Berkeley campus of the University of California. He is a past clinical research fellow at the Warren G. Magnusson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where his work included construction and validation of function-based physical capacity tests for patients with chronic fatiguing illnesses. He has extended this early work into the identification of optimal rehabilitation programs for people with chronic post-viral fatigue.