Bruce Buckingham is a Professor in the Department of Pediatric Endocrinology at the Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Medical Center and the Stanford Children’s Hospital.

 Bruce’s research focuses on continuous glucose monitoring and the development of a closed-loop system. He was the PI at Stanford on the JDRF multicenter CGM study, for the DirecNet study group and on the first studies testing the Medtronic 670G hybrid closed-loop system. Bruce was PI for an insulin-only version of the Bionic Pancreas Project, a collaboration with Boston University and Massachusetts General Hospital. He has conducted work on several NIH multicenter collaborative studies as well as studies for BigFoot, Tandem, Animas, Insulet and RPI for development of closed-loop systems. In his role with DirecNet he is conducting a study of MRI and neurocognitive changes in children with diabetes, in collaboration with colleagues at Stanford Diabetes Research Center.

Dr. Buckingham received his M.D. from the University of California at San Diego and completed his internship, residency and fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

Sean Doherty is the Founder of the T1D Fund and former Chair of the Board who led the concept-creation, design and capital financing of the Fund, and he has driven its strategy since inception. Sean retired at the end of 2018 from his role as Managing Director of Bain Capital, LP, a private global investment firm which he joined in 2005 as the firm’s first general counsel.  In this role he built a pioneering and industry-leading deal lawyer and risk management group during a time of rapid growth and institutionalization of the alternative asset industry. He also had a diverse operational and constituency management role at Bain Capital, where he led crisis management, press and external communications, government relations, branding and philanthropic initiatives and was deeply involved in governance matters and capital raising. Earlier in his career he worked at Ropes & Gray LLP and was a law clerk to a federal district judge in Boston. Prior to law school, he was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, in which he served on a Middle East Force frigate from 1990-94. 

Sean and his wife, Suzy, have been involved with JDRF since 2002 when their son Finn was diagnosed with T1D at the age of 2. He served on the JDRF International Board and its Executive Committee from 2016 to 2019 following more than a decade of service on the JDRF New England Chapter Board, including two years as its President. 

He received a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and a B.A. magna cum laude in Government from Harvard College. He serves on the boards of directors of two companies with T1D programs and is also a member of the board of trustees of Thayer Academy in Braintree, MA.