AI coach could train doctors in critical newborn airway procedure

Researchers in the Division of Neonatology and Newborn Nursery and their colleagues are developing an artificial intelligence-based “digital mentor” to support the training of clinicians who help newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit breathe. The work may one day lead to making intubation — one of the highest-risk procedures performed in the NICU — safer and more effective.

Read the full story, published by the UW School of Medicine and Public Health on September 1, 2026. 

A doctor wearing blue scrubs works on a pediatric manikin patient while another doctor looks on.
In the photo, left to right: Patrick Peebles, MD, and Ryan McAdams, MD