John A. Di Camillo, PhD, BeL
President
215-871-2001 | jdicamillo@ncbcenter.org
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 is also a familiar public presence in the field of Catholic bioethics. He has published numerous scholarly and popular articles and has given scores of health care ethics presentations, 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 been interviewed by various news outlets and featured in podcasts and other audio and video interviews
From June 2022 to December 2024, Dr. Di Camillo served as the first personal consultations director of the NCBC. Spearheading this new initiative, he managed and promoted the Center’s longstanding 24/7 free ethics consultation service for individuals, leading and mentoring a new generation of ethicists while galvanizing financial support for the NCBC.
Dr. Di Camillo has also 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 worked for several years as a health care interpreter, conference interpreter, and classroom interpreter, and acquired health care experience as a pharmacy technician. He also served as one of the founding editors and as managing editor of the Catholic literary journal Dappled Things Magazine.
Dr. Di Camillo graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with majors in the biological basis of behavior and Italian studies in 2006. He was recognized as the top student in his class in both fields. He went on to earn his bioethics doctorate and licentiate degrees summa cum laude from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. He received the Academic Excellence Award for his doctoral dissertation on institutional collaborative arrangements in Catholic health care (2016). He co-translated Elio Cardinal Sgreccia’s monumental bioethics manual, Personalist Bioethics: Foundations and Applications, which the NCBC published in 2012.
Dr. Di Camillo lives with his wife and children in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.