Dr Noel Somasundaram is Consultant Endocrinologist, Diabetes and Hormone Centre, Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is the President of South Asian Federation of Endocrine Societies and Project Lead for Sri Lanka Diabetes and Cardiovascular Initiative a national project for prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.

Dr Noel Somasundaram has more than 100 publications in the field of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism. He is the editor of Clinical Diabetology and has chapters in fifteen textbooks including Oxford Desktop Reference in Endocrinology and International Textbook for Diabetes. He has been Principal investigator in many international studies.

He was former Consultant Endocrinologist at National Hospital of Sri Lanka. His pioneering work includes introduction of comprehensive care for patients with diabetes, obesity, pituitary tumours and craniopharyngioma, introduction of hormone testing and catheter studies for complex endocrine disorders to Sri Lanka.