Professor Sanath Lamabathusooriya, MBE is a Sri Lankan academic and paediatrician.
An Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics, he was the former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo and one of the foremost paediatricians in Sri Lanka.
Specializing in paediatrics he spent many years at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children.
During this time he played a major role in the Sri Lanka Cleft Palate Project.
[2] For his work in the Sri Lanka Cleft Palate Project he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by Queen Elizabeth and on his retirement his portrait was unveiled at the Lady Ridgeway Children's Hospital.