Dr Arosha Weerakoon is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland’s School of Dentistry, where she represents Dentistry on the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences AI Curriculum Steering Group. She was the first in the School to embed AI-enhanced tools into coursework, redesign assessments to be AI-inclusive, and develop an AI-derived podcast series to support student learning. Her work focuses on promoting equity through inclusive, student-centred educational design, and strengthening clinician critical thinking skills in the age of AI.

In 2025, she was awarded a Faculty Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning (Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, University of Queensland), recognising her leadership in AI-enhanced education.

Her interest in the ethical and practical integration of AI in dentistry arises from her dual perspective as a clinician and practice owner. She aims to use AI to enhance patient care while reducing cognitive load, with a strong emphasis on safe and purposeful implementation. This informed her leadership of a landmark scoping review published in 2025 that examined AI in dental and healthcare within the Australian regulatory context. In 2026, she is lead author on a multidisciplinary paper exploring the use of machine learning in public dental and healthcare services.

Dr Weerakoon is also co-editor of the special issue Intelligent Oral Care: AI Applications in Contemporary Dentistry to be published in the Australian Dental Journal. She has contributed to public and academic discourse on AI in healthcare, including publications with UQ and a book chapter in Inquiry in Action: Using AI to Reimagine Learning and Teaching.

She has presented widely on AI in dentistry and healthcare, including at the TIMA Global Forum (Ethics and consent in an era of AI), the Australian Dental Congress (where she convened and led the AI in Dentistry symposium), UQ Clinic Day, CADMUS Society Clinic Day, and UQ Teaching and Innovation Week.