Assistant Professor

Research and Clinical interests
- Resuscitation science research with a focus on cardiac arrest treatment and outcome disparities, burden of disease estimation, and healthcare policy

Biography

Dr. Ryan Coute is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He attended medical school at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences and then completed emergency medicine residency at UAB. His primary interest is resuscitation science research with a focus on cardiac arrest treatment and outcome disparities, burden of disease estimation, and healthcare policy. His research training includes the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Fellowship, completed under the direction of Robert W. Neumar MD PhD at the University of Michigan. Dr. Coute has published more than 25 peer-reviewed manuscripts in high impact journals such as Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Resuscitation, Journal of the American Heart Association, and the American Heart Journal. His research has received multiple high-profile awards including two American Heart Association (AHA) Young Investigator Awards, an AHA Best Abstract Award for Resuscitation Science, the 2020 Resident Academic Achievement Award from the Council of Residency Directors of Emergency Medicine, and the 2021 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Resident Researcher of the Year. Dr. Coute is also the recipient of two research grants funded by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the Emergency Medicine Foundation. He is on a research faculty pathway with the long-term goal of becoming an independent NIH-funded academic clinical scientist.

Certifications

American Board of Emergency Medicine

Education

Medical School
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences

Residency
University of Alabama at Birmingham - Emergency Medicine

Fellowship
University of Michigan - Cardiovascular Research