A native New Englander, Dr. Buckley served as the assistant team physician for the University of Florida Gators and as a clinical instructor at the University of Florida, Department of Orthopaedics during his orthopedic surgery residency. While completing his arthroscopy and sports medicine fellowship, Dr. Buckley served as the assistant team physician for Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma.

Dr. Buckley is on staff at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover and Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester. He also has privileges at Portsmouth Regional Hospital. Dr. Buckley is an affiliate assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology, School of Health and Human Services, at the University of New Hampshire.