John A. Di Camillo, PhD, BeL, is the president of The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC). He joined the NCBC as a staff ethicist in 2011, became its personal consultations director in 2022, and assumed the role of president on January 1, 2025. His wide-ranging experience includes fielding thousands of personal ethics consultations, working with hospital ethics committees, assessing the Catholic identity and ethical integrity of health care organizations, reviewing health benefit plans for alignment with Catholic moral teaching, and developing ethical recommendations for bishops and various organs of the Church.
Dr. Di Camillo has published numerous articles and has given scores of presentations on health care ethics, including for the Center’s Workshops for Bishops, diocesan clergy convocations, grand rounds for health care professionals, and the Catholic Medical Association’s Annual Boot Camp for medical students and residents. He has taught at middle school, high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels across disciplines including Italian language and culture, Church history, science, biomedical ethics, philosophy, and moral theology. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with majors in the biological basis of behavior and Italian studies and earned his bioethics doctorate and licentiate degrees from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome.
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