Grace Anne Koppel Defies COPD Odds, Advocates for Disease Awareness

Grace Anne Koppel has lived with progressive COPD for 25 years, experiencing increasing breathlessness, isolation, and dependency on supplemental oxygen, requiring constant life adjustments and careful planning of daily activities.

For twenty-five years, Grace Anne Koppel has lived with a disease the world largely associates with choices she never made — she has never smoked, yet severe COPD claimed 72 percent of her lung capacity and nearly claimed her life. Her survival, improbable by any clinical measure, has transformed into a public mission: to dismantle the stigma that leaves millions of patients — many of them never-smokers — without adequate care, funding, or recognition. Through the Dorney-Koppel Foundation, she has carried pulmonary rehabilitation into rural America, where the disease is most prevalent and leas

Grace Anne Koppel Defies COPD Odds, Advocates for Disease Awareness

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