Wolpe served for 15 years as the Bioethicist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
He is the Past President of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors, past President of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, a Fellow of The Hastings Center, and a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the country’s oldest medical society.
He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the American Jewish University in 2019.
He completed his undergraduate degree in the sociology and psychology of religion at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Wolpe has been chosen by Faculty Row as a “SuperProfessor” and by The Teaching Company as a "Superstar Teacher of America.” His TED Talk Talk has over 2 million views, and he was profiled in the November, 2011 The Atlantic Magazine as a “Brave Thinker of 2011.”