Longtime National Press Club member Debra Hughes passes away

Debra Hughes, a widely published medical writer and 39-year member of the National Press Club, died Sept. 2. She was 61 and lived in Lusby, Maryland.

Hughes was a former editor of Oncology Times and was a writer and editor on a wide variety of cancer subjects for more than 30 years. She worked as a journalist, educator and publisher and in 1997 founded D.A. Hughes & Associates, a provider of medical communications services for academic institutions, medical associations and societies, publishing companies and pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms.

She was a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she specialized in science writing, and the University of California at Riverside.