Biography
A graduate of Fordham University (B.A.), Stanford University (M.A.), and Georgetown Law (J.D.), Grace Anne Dorney works as a practicing attorney, senior Vice President for Koppel Communications, (an independent production company) and business manager for her husband, Ted Koppel, in Potomac, Maryland.
Since January 2006, Dorney has also been active as a national spokeswoman and patient advocate for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health in the hopes of raising awareness of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) which affects some 24 million Americans, 12 million of whom are undiagnosed and untreated. She has appeared on the CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, The View, on cable, radio and in magazine publications, to try to capture physician and public interest for NHLBI’s "Learn More Breathe Better" campaign. Dorney has four children and five grandchildren. She also has COPD but has "learned much more" about managing her disease and does "breathe better".
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