Petersburg, Florida. He has been on staff at St. Petersburg General Hospital since 2008. Dr. Couch attended the University of Connecticut where he earned an undergraduate degree in physiology and neurobiology in 1996. He attended graduate school at Emory University, earning a degree in Master of Public Health. Dr. Couch then joined his father, a PhD chemical engineer, in launching a business that took him to Australia for five years. After returning to the United States, he completed his general surgical training and residency at Texas Tech University, where he met his wife, Sherri.