Ryan Coute, DO

Ryan Coute, DO, is a physician-scientist and assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). His research training includes a Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Fellowship completed under the mentorship of Robert W. Neumar, MD, PhD, at the University of Michigan. His primary research focus is resuscitation science, with an emphasis on improving the treatment of sudden cardiac arrest.

Dr. Coute has authored 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts, including 25 as first or senior author. He has received 15 national research awards, including two American Heart Association (AHA) Young Investigator Awards, an AHA Best of the Best Award for Resuscitation Science, and the 2025 Amy H. Kaji Early Investigator Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. He was recently named a James A. Pittman Scholar within the UAB Heersink School of Medicine and received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, becoming the first emergency physician to receive either distinction.

He is the principal investigator on multiple extramural grants, including an NIH K23 Career Development Award (perfect impact score of 10), an AHA Second Century Early Faculty Independence Award, and a Zoll Foundation Early-Stage Research Award. He is ranked among the top 150 NIH-funded emergency medicine physicians in the United States, according to the Blue Ridge Institute.

Dr. Coute’s scholarship has translated into national service roles with AHA, including membership on the Advanced Life Support Guideline Writing Group and the ECC Science Subcommittee, as well as service as co-chair of the Research Sustainability Task Force. Regionally, he chairs the Alabama Sudden Cardiac Arrest Task Force and serves as director of research and innovation for the Birmingham Regional EMS System.