Elizabeth Davenport, PhD
Elizabeth Moody Davenport, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Radiology and the Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC) at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and a member of its Radiology Research Division. She also has a tertiary appointment in the Department of Neurology.
Dr. Davenport holds a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and earned her doctorate in biomedical engineering from Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University in Blacksburg, Virginia. She then received advanced training as a postdoctoral researcher at UT Southwestern in Joseph Maldjian's Advanced NeuroScience Imaging Research (ANSIR) Lab.
Dr. Davenport's research interests include subconcussive head impact exposure in contact sports, imaging of traumatic brain injury, using imaging to investigate biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease, and the use of magnetoencephalography (MEG) in imaging magnetic fields produced by electrical currents associated with neuronal function. Her investigations have led to the publication of numerous original articles in peer-reviewed journals, and she has contributed to multiple book chapters.
Dr. Davenport is an active member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Society of Neuroradiology, American Clinical MEG Society, and the MEG Data Sharing Committee of the National Institutes of Health.