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.
Read MoreJoseph Meaney received his PhD in bioethics from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome. His doctoral program was founded by the late Elio Cardinal Sgreccia and linked to the medical school and Gemelli teaching hospital.
Read MoreDirector of institutional relations and staff ethicist John F. Brehany joined The National Catholic Bioethics Center in January 2015. He leads implementation of the NCBC’s Catholic Identity and Ethics Review (CIER) program, a comprehensive, in-depth assessment program for Catholic health care based on the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. Dr. Brehany also serves as a consultant on a range of clinical and institutional issues and teaches in the NCBC’s certification program.
Read MorePhilip Cerroni joined the NCBC in 2016 as an editor in the Publications Department, where he worked on Ethics & Medics and the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (NCBQ) before becoming the managing editor of the NCBQ and production manager for the department in 2019. He earned an MPH in epidemiology from Temple University in Philadelphia in 2020 and an MS in bioethics from the University of Mary in Bismarck, ND, in 2022. He currently serves as an associate ethicist with the NCBC, focusing on increasing engagement with the NCBC’s mission and programs among individual, diocesan, and institutional stakeholders. He is studying for his doctorate in bioethics at Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome.
Read MoreDr. Sarah Denny Lorio holds a PhD in Bioethics from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome and an MA in Theology from Notre Dame Seminary and Graduate School in New Orleans, LA. An avid speaker, her doctoral research focused on the differing philosophies that affect the practice of women’s health in the United States of America and argued for a "third way" of sex education that teaches young people fertility awareness-based methods both as preventive medicine and as proximate vocation preparation.
Read MoreDiAnn Ecret joined The National Catholic Bioethics Center as the nurse planner and adjunct lecturer during the summer of 2016. She graduated from Our Lady of Lourdes School of Nursing in 1987, completed her BSN and MSN from Wilmington University, obtained an MA certification in theology/ethics from Villanova University, and completed her PhD in health care ethics at Duquesne University in 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her dissertation was titled Using an Ethics of Care to Re-interpret Consent in the Management of Care for Addiction Disorders. Dr. Ecret has thirty years of combined nursing experience in pediatric and adult critical care and in nursing education. She is an assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson University’s Jefferson College of Nursing,
Read MoreEdward (Ted) Furton directs a staff of three who produce the NCBC’s many books and serial publications. He is founding editor of the award-winning journal The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly and the longest-serving editor of Ethics & Medics, a monthly bulletin on moral issues in the health and life sciences. He and his staff have recently completed the third edition of the best-selling Catholic Health Care Ethics: A Manual for Practitioners. He has edited books by a variety of distinguished authors, including Daniel Cronin, John Leies, Marilyn Coors, Matthew Hanley, and Arland Nichols. He subscribes to the natural law theory of ethics and has written and spoken on many topics in bioethics, including stem cell research, reproductive technologies, vaccine use, brain death, organ donation, and physician-assisted suicide. He is interested in the role of religion in American public life.
Read MoreSenior Fellow Marie Hilliard holds graduate degrees in maternal–child health nursing, religious studies, canon law, and professional higher education administration. She has been recognized for her involvement in health care advocacy at the state and national levels and was honored at the Second Annual International Nurses Day at the United Nations for her exemplary practice in the global delivery of health care. Dr. Hilliard has been a board member of several state and national organizations, including the Canon Law Society of America. She is an Army colonel (ret.), serving for more than twenty years, including as an acting deputy commander for a United States Army Reserve Brigade responsible for nursing and medic training for the northeastern United States.
Read MoreDr. Kubick holds a Ph.D. in Bioethics from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum and an M.A. in Theology from Holy Apostles College & Seminary. Aside from his work at NCBC, he serves as Deputy Director of the National Center for Religious Freedom Education and Research Fellow in Bioethics and Medical Conscience at the Religious Freedom Institute, and Adjunct Instructor of Bioethics at University of Mary.
Read MoreFr. Tad Pacholczyk earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and did postdoctoral work at Harvard. He is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, MA, and serves as Senior Ethicist at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.
Read MoreJoe joined The National Catholic Bioethics Center in 2017 and became Director of Education in 2023. In this role he oversees the NCBC Certification Program, Chaplaincy Program, and dual college/high school “Introduction to Catholic Health Care Ethics” course. He also produces and hosts the Center’s Bioethics on Air podcast and has authored multiple statements, guides, and book chapters for NCBC publications.
Prior to the NCBC, he served from 2015 to 2017 as the regional director of ethics and spiritual care for Mercy Health–Cincinnati and also as a lecturer at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary/Athenaeum of Ohio. From 2004 to 2009 he was an assistant professor, and from 2009 to 2015 an assistant professor (with tenure), at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, where he taught courses in health care ethics, business ethics, sexual and reproductive ethics, introduction to Catholic theology, and marriage.
Joe earned his 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 written two books and various articles and reviews, and he presents at academic conferences both domestically and internationally.
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