Stephen Couban received a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University in 1982 and his M.D. from Dalhousie University in 1986. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax and went on to complete a fellowship in Hematology at McMaster University in Hamilton. He also undertook two years of specialty training in bone marrow transplantation at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto as a National Cancer Institute of Canada Terry Fox Research Fellow.

In 1997, Stephen Couban joined the Department of Medicine at Dalhousie University and the Capital District Health Authority in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is Service Chief in the Division of Hematology and Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program. He is also Service Chief of the Department of Medicine Medical Teaching Unit. His research interests have focused on allografting and in particular on exploration of different types of grafts including G-CSF stimulated allogeneic peripheral blood allografts and G-CSF stimulated bone marrow allografts. Stephen Couban is Past-President of the Canadian Blood and Marrow Transplant Group, Secretary of the Canadian Hematology Society and Co-Chair of the Hematology Site Group of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Groups.

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