Joe Zalot, PhD

Director of Education and Ethicist
215-871-2014 | jzalot@ncbcenter.org

Joe Zalot joined The National Catholic Bioethics Center in 2017 and was named Director of Education in 2023. In addition to overseeing the NCBC Certification Program and other educational offerings, he produces and hosts the NCBC’s Bioethics on Air podcast and responds to approximately four hundred ethics consultations per year. He also lectures for the NCBC and has authored multiple statements, guides, and book chapters for NCBC publications. Prior to coming to the NCBC, Joe served as the Regional Director of Ethics and Spiritual Care for Mercy Health in Cincinnati from 2015 to 2017 and a lecturer at the Athenaeum of Ohio–Mount St. Mary’s Seminary. From 2004 to 2015 (tenure 2009), he was a professor at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati teaching courses in health care ethics, business ethics, Christian marriage, and travel courses that integrated the Catholic faith with history and art in Rome. Joe earned a PhD from Marquette University in 2002, an MEd from Boston College in 1997, an MEd from Springfield College in 1991, and a BA from St. Anselm College in 1989. He has authored two books along with numerous book chapters and articles, and has presented at academic conferences both domestically and internationally. He is married to his wife Susan (1994) and they have a daughter, Maria