John A. Di Camillo, PhD, BeL
Personal Consultations Director & Ethicist
215-871-2001 | jdicamillo@ncbcenter.org
John A. Di Camillo, PhD, BeL, is an ethicist and the Personal Consultations Director at The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC). He manages NCBC’s 24/7 free ethics consultation service for individuals, which includes training, mentorship, and supervision of Personal Consultations Fellows and Interns. He fields hundreds of phone and email consultations each year while reviewing hundreds more prepared by fellows and interns. His experience includes writing and speaking on bioethics issues as well as advising Catholic hospital ethics committees as an outside expert, counseling bishops and dioceses, conducting moral analyses of collaborative arrangements between Catholic and non-Catholic health care organizations, and analyzing employer health benefits for alignment with Catholic moral teaching. His topics of focus have included sexual and gender identity, maternal-fetal vital conflicts, determination of death and organ donation, reproductive technologies, and cooperation with evil.
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 speaks fluent Italian and co-translated Personalist Bioethics, a seminal work authored by Elio Cardinal Sgreccia. His translations include other works of theology, spirituality, and bioethics for a variety of Catholic publishers, including the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. 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 earned his BA summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in the Biological Basis of Behavior and Italian Studies. He earned 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 organizational cooperation with evil and collaborative arrangements involving Catholic health care systems.
Dr. Di Camillo lives with his wife and children in Lancaster County, PA.