She is a Certified Breast Patient Navigator through the National Consortium of Breast Centers and an Oncology Nursing Society Certified Breast Care Nurse. As a breast cancer patient navigator and breast health educator for the Johns Hopkins Breast Center, Debby offers support and education to patients and their families that includes her perspective as a long time breast cancer survivor. She was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in 1979 at the age of 25 and again 20 years later.