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Building CAR-E: A Novel Artificial Intelligence Agent for Coaching Conversations Cover

Building CAR-E: A Novel Artificial Intelligence Agent for Coaching Conversations

Open Access
|Jun 2026

Authors

Matthew E. Kelleher

kellehmw@ucmail.uc.edu

Associate Professor, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio

C. Y. Zhou

zhouct@ucmail.uc.edu

Clinical fellow, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio

Seth Overla

overlash@ucmail.uc.edu

Data Scientist, Office of Medical Education, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio

Andrew Zahn

zahnaw@mail.uc.edu

Fourth-year medical student, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio

Brandon Zaffuto

zaffutbn@ucmail.uc.edu

Third-year internal medicine resident, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio

Sally A. Santen

santensa@ucmail.uc.edu

Associate Dean and Professor, Emergency Medicine and Medical Education, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

Benjamin Kinnear

kinneabn@ucmail.uc.edu

Associate Professor, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio

Laurah Turner

turnela@ucmail.uc.edu

Associate Dean for Artificial Intelligence and Educational Informatics and Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Education, and Biostatistics, Health Informatics and Data Sciences, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/pme.2563 | Journal eISSN: 2212-277X
Language: English
Page range: 546 - 555
Submitted on: Mar 11, 2026
Accepted on: Jun 2, 2026
Published on: Jun 24, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2026 Matthew E. Kelleher, C. Y. Zhou, Seth Overla, Andrew Zahn, Brandon Zaffuto, Sally A. Santen, Benjamin Kinnear, Laurah Turner, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.