[2] His passion for medicine led him to graduate as a medical technologist in radiology and a degree in imaging.
[2] He worked since 1998, in the imaging area of the Dr. Roberto Gilbert Elizalde Children's Hospital.
[3][4][2] He was part of children's Christmas events for the Roberto Gilbert Children's Hospital, when Coppiano and the physiotherapists Holger Potes and Rosita Triana developed, together with the hospital directors, the event "Por una Sonrisa", together with the Junta de Beneficiencia de Guayaquil.
[4] Coppiano died in Guayaquil on April 5, 2020, at the age of 54, from complications of COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the pandemic in Ecuador.
Owing to the collapse of the health system caused by the pandemic, he had been unable to find care in hospital.