COPD Learn More Breathe Better® Partners

  • Alpha-1 Association
    The Alpha-1 Association regularly shares campaign updates with their members and maintains a link to the COPD Learn More Breathe Better® Web site.

  • Alpha-1 Foundation
    The Alpha-1 Foundation in partnership with the COPD Foundation, supported the development and production of the Learn More Breathe Better® Resource Kit. Designed to help advocacy organizations, patient groups and health care professionals spread the word about COPD, the kit contains tools and materials including fact sheets for those at-risk for COPD and diagnosed patients, an educational video, radio and print PSAs, presentation materials, and more. To date, more than 600 kits have been distributed nationwide.

  • American Academy of Family Physicians
    The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is helping to raise awareness of COPD among family physicians. The organization’s leadership invited COPD patient advocate Grace Anne Dorney Koppel to share her personal story during a plenary session at the 2008 AAFP Scientific Assembly in San Diego on September 18. Dennis Doherty, MD, FCCP, will provide a clinical overview to complement Ms. Koppel’s presentation. More than 15,000 attendees are expected at the conference.

  • American Association for Respiratory Care
    The AARC adopted COPD Learn More Breathe Better® as the theme for both their Respiratory Care Week and Lung Health Week in October, 2007. The organization promoted campaign materials on its Web site, and provided in-kind ad space for the print PSA along with a story on the campaign in the September 2007 issue of AARC Times.

  • American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
    The AACVPR invited James P. Kiley, PhD, Director of the Division of Lung Diseases at NHLBI to speak on behalf of the COPD Learn More Breathe Better® Campaign at their 2007 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City.

  • American College of Chest Physicians
    The ACCP provided support for the campaign at the 2007 CHEST conference in Chicago. The organization donated exhibit space to the campaign, added a session on COPD awareness, supported the distribution of educational materials, and profiled the campaign in the CHEST Daily News. COPD Learn More Breathe Better® representatives also moderated a panel discussion at the Asthma/COPD Summit Workshop.

  • American College of Physicians
    The ACP distributed COPD Learn More Breathe Better® campaign materials at COPD-related presentations at its 2007 annual meeting and provided in-kind ad space for the print PSA in Internal Medicine Today.

  • American Lung Association
    The ALA has promoted the COPD Learn More Breathe Better® Resource Kit to its chapters nationwide. The ALA has cobranded campaign materials for use in regional and national outreach. ALA also included an overview of the campaign and a profile of Grace Anne Dorney Koppel in the November 2007 issue of Lung Health, which is distributed to 100,000 subscribers.

  • American Lung Association of Arizona
    ALAA is taking COPD outreach “on the road”, heading up a program to educate doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists in remote areas of Arizona about diagnosis and treatment of the disease as part of their Breathe Free program. COPD Learn More Breathe Better® fact sheets and resource kit materials have been incorporated into the two-day courses designed to raise awareness of COPD, promote early detection of the disease through use of spirometry, and educate healthcare providers and patients about the dangers of tobacco smoke and environmental exposures.

  • American Thoracic Society
    The American Thoracic Society put COPD on the forefront of the agenda at the 2008 International Conference in Toronto by inviting COPD patient advocate Grace Anne Dorney Koppel, to deliver the President’s Lecture to its membership on May 20, 2008. This marked the first time this lecture has been delivered by a non-medical professional.

  • Colorado COPD Coalition
    In June 2007, the Colorado COPD Coalition introduced the first statewide action plan in the U.S. designed to address COPD. The plan includes targeted distribution of co-branded COPD Learn More Breathe Better® print and radio PSAs and the distribution of educational materials, including campaign fact sheets for at-risk and diagnosed patients, as well as the educational video. The radio PSAs ran in southeastern Colorado this May. Print PSAs will be inserted in an agricultural publication as well as in daily newspapers.

  • COPD Alert
    COPD Alert regularly shares campaign updates with their members and maintains a link to the COPD Learn More Breathe Better® Web site.

  • COPD Foundation
    The COPD Foundation and Dey, LP are supporting the development and distribution of an awareness kit for health care providers. The kit contains materials for use in physicians’ offices and waiting rooms, including the COPD Learn More Breathe Better® educational video, fact sheets for patients and those at-risk, a resource card for health care professionals, and a materials order form. Kits will be delivered by Dey’s sales force to 30,000 health care providers nationwide in June 2008.

  • COPD International
    COPD International regularly shares campaign updates with their members and maintains a link to the COPD Learn More Breathe Better® Web site.

  • EFFORTS
    EFFORTS regularly shares campaign updates with their members and maintains a link to the COPD Learn More Breathe Better® Web site.

  • Hawaii COPD Coalition
    The Hawaii COPD Coalition, in partnership with Longs Drugs, is holding a series of free lung testing clinics as part of the Project SUCCESS program. COPD Learn More Breathe Better® fact sheets will be distributed as part of this effort. In support of National COPD Awareness Month 2007, the Hawaii COPD Coalition hosted the state’s first COPD Education Day on November 2, 2007. James Kiley, PhD, Director, Division of Lung Disease, NHLBI, served as keynote speaker and campaign materials were distributed. Their recent efforts in Hawaii landed a TV news broadcast.

  • Illinois COPD Coalition
    The Illinois COPD Coalition, convened by the Respiratory Health Association of Metro Chicago (RHAMC), introduced a new statewide plan to address COPD at a press conference in Chicago. James P. Kiley, PhD, Director of the Division of Lung Diseases at NHLBI, and patient advocate Grace Anne Dorney Koppel were among the presenters at the launch. The strategic action plan seeks to stem the growth of new cases, reduce mortality rates, and improve quality of life for the more than 500,000 Illinois residents currently living with COPD and incorporates the distribution of co-branded COPD Learn More Breathe Better® materials.

  • National Emphysema/COPD Association
    NECA regularly shares campaign updates with their members and maintains a link to the COPD Learn More Breathe Better® Web site.

  • National Jewish Medical and Research Center
    National Jewish Medical and Research Center supports the Colorado COPD Coalition’s COPD planning and outreach initiative. NJMRC representative, Barry Make, MD has delivered presentations on behalf of COPD Learn More Breathe Better® at meetings and conferences across the country.

  • National Lung Health Education Program
    National Lung Health Education Program Chair Dennis Doherty, MD will provide a clinical overview on COPD to complement Grace Anne Dorney Koppel’s presentation at the American Academy of Family Physicians Scientific Assembly on September 18, 2008.

  • US COPD Coalition
    The US COPD Coalition official adopted COPD Learn More Breathe Better® as the theme for COPD Awareness Month 2007 and 2008. The Coalition has hosted COPD Learn More Breathe Better® campaign leaders to provide updates at coalition meetings since the campaign’s inception.