Professor Stuart Brink is the Senior Pediatric Endocrinologist at NEDEC, New England Diabetes and Endocrinology Center, in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine and a Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School as well.

He is currently the President of the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) and has been ISPAD's Secretary-General twice in the past as well as ISPAD's International Education Committee Chair.

He has served on the National Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association as well as been the ADA's National Chair for the Council on Diabetes and Youth. He has been President of the Massachusetts Affiliate of the ADA twice. He also currently serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics Endocrine Executive Committee.

He graduated from Brooklyn College with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in 1968 and then received his Medical Degree from the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1972. He was a pediatric intern, junior as well as senior resident in pediatrics and then Chief Resident in Pediatrics all at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center from 1972-1976. He did a pediatric endocrinology fellowship at Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital of Boston in 1976-77 and then a diabetes fellowship at Harvard Medical School/Joslin Clinic from 1977-78 before joining the staff as the Joslin Clinic's first-ever pediatrician. He stayed at Joslin until 1984 when he moved as the Senior Endocrinologist to the New England Diabetes and Endocrinology Center where he remains to date.

Dr Brink was a co-investigator of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) and has authored numerous articles and book chapters concerning pediatric and adolescent diabetes, its complications, treatment protocols and associated conditions with a special interest in psychosocial issues vis-à-vis diabetes and edited or co-edited several textbooks: Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes Mellitus, publisher Year Book Medical, Chicago, 1987; co-editor with Viorel Serban of Diabetul Zaharat al Copilului si Adolescentului, Timisoara, Romania, 1995; co-editor with Linda Siminerio of Diabetes Education Goals, American Diabetes Association, Alexandria, VA, USA, 1995; co-editor with Viorel Serban of Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes, Bromer: Timisoara, Romania, 2003

He volunteers on the childrenwithdiabetes.com website and continues to be active with clinical research and international education. He has lectured in Peru, Ecuador, Cuba, Mexico, Santo Domingo, Finland, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Lithuania, Scotland, Italy, France, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Luxembourg, Japan, Thailand, Mongolia, China, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, South Africa and Singapore as well as Canada and the United States. He is a professional member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (LWPES), the American Diabetes Association (ADA), International Diabetes Federation (IDF), International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD), American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) and the Endocrine Society.