He earned his Ph.D. in Theological Ethics at Boston College in 2008. Before joining the Clough School he was Associate Professor of Theology at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH. He served as the Theology department chair for five of his thirteen
years at Saint Anselm.
Daniel is an experienced clinical medical ethicist, having served on the ethics committees of the Catholic Medical Center and the Elliot Hospital in Manchester, NH. He was also member of the Catholic Health Association’s
Theologian/Ethicist committee. Daniel is an active member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, The Society of Christian Ethics, the Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church initiative, and the American Society for Bioethics + Humanities.
His monograph, The Structures of Virtue and Vice, was published in 2021 by Georgetown University and Press and was awarded First Place in the Theological and Philosophical Studies category by the Catholic Media Association in July of 2022.
His scholarship focuses on health care ethics, organizational ethics, virtue ethics, and the ethics of social structures, and has been published in journals such as Theological Studies, The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, the Journal
of Medical Ethics, Christian Bioethics, and Health Progress.