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 a handbook for diabetes management 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 including the EMPAREG study. He was former Consultant Endocrinologist at National Hospital of Sri Lanka, which is the tertiary referral centre for 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. He has served as the chairman of the Specialty board in Endocrinology, Post Graduate Institute of Medicine and for guideline committees in Diabetes, Obesity, Thyroid, Sodium disorders, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and Cushing syndrome. He graduated (with honours) from the University of Jaffna and subsequently trained in Endocrine Unit of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London prior to being board certified as Endocrinologist by the Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo.
