...working to raise awareness of COPD

The Coalition organizes activities on World COPD Day, a partnership between health care groups and respiratory educators to raise awareness about COPD that was held for the first time on November 20, 2002.

This Year's Events

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replacement screens World COPD Day 2002

The Coalition marked the first-ever World COPD Day with a major media event in Washington, DC. Claude Lenfant, MD; Eve Slater, MD, Assistant Secretary for Health, DHHS; William Bailey, MD; and baseball great Roger Clemens spoke to the press about the burden of COPD in the US and the need to raise awareness of the disease.

Click on the links below to download more information about the press conference:

• World COPD Day press release (MS Word Document)
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• Press Conference agenda (MS Word Document)
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• Roger Clemens press release (MS Word Document)
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• World COPD Day message to the Coalition from US Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson (Adobe PDF File - requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
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• COPD statistics slides (MS PowerPoint file)
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• Dr. Claude Lenfant’s biography (Adobe PDF File - requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
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• Dr. Eve Slater’s biography (MS Word Document)
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• Dr. William Bailey’s biography (MS Word Document)
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• Facts about COPD (MS Word Document)
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• What is COPD? (MS Word Document)
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• GOLD fact sheet (MS Word Document)