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 personally fields hundreds of phone and email consultations each year while reviewing hundreds more prepared by fellows and interns. He also applies Catholic moral theology to science and medicine through writing, speaking, advising Catholic hospital ethics committees as an outside expert, 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. The topics of greatest interest to him include sexual identity, maternal-fetal vital conflicts, reproductive technologies, and cooperation with evil.  

Dr. Di Camillo has taught at middle school, high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels across disciplines including Italian language and culture, Church history, basic sciences, biomedical ethics, philosophy, and moral theology. He speaks fluent Italian and co-translated Personalist Bioethics, a seminal work authored by Elio Cardinal Sgreccia and published in English by NCBC. His translations include other works in the fields of theology, spirituality, and bioethics for a variety of Catholic publishers, including the USCCB. He worked for several years as a health care interpreter, conference interpreter, and classroom interpreter. He also gained health care experience as a hospital pharmacy technician and editorial experience as a volunteer managing editor of the Catholic literary journal Dappled Things Magazine. He earned his BA in the Biological Basis of Behavior and Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and completed both of his graduate degrees in bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. He earned the Academic Excellence Award for his doctoral dissertation on organizational cooperation with evil.

Dr. Di Camillo lives with his wife and children in Lancaster County, PA.

Last updated: June 19, 2023