Dr. William M. Novick is the founder and Medical Director of the International Children’s Heart Foundation. The International Children’s Heart Foundation is a medical charity dedicated to providing free pediatric cardiac surgery to needy children throughout the world. To date, the foundation’s medical teams have provided life-saving heart surgery to almost 3000 children with congenital heart defects in 20 different countries.

As a Passion Award winner, Dr. Novick will receive a solid gold Frederique Constant watch from the Heart Beat Manufacture collection and will be offered a Business Case Study by Prof. Dominique Turpin of IMD Lausanne. The Business Case Study will concentrate on various aspects of the International Children’s Heart Foundation with the aim to increase operations.

In addition, Frédérique Constant will launch a charity campaign where for each watch sold from its Double Heart Beat Collection, Frédérique Constant will donate the cost of a life-saving heart scan to the International Children’s Heart Foundation. This charity campaign will run until December 31, 2008. Frédérique Constant will handover its first cheque to the International Children’s Heart Foundation in June 2008. At that time, accumulated donations are estimated to be in excess of CHF 50'000.

Letter Dr. Novick:

At the beginning of this century, before world wars, religious, tribal, and political strife robbed human society of much potential advancement, Andrew Carnegie made a generous endowment to create a foundation for peace. As a poor immigrant who rose to power and fantastic wealth, Carnegie was no fool by any yardstick. It is noteworthy, however, that at the outset he expected this organization to find a solution to war within five years and asked his Board of Trustees (paraphrased) , "After we solve the war problem, what are we going to do with the rest of the money?"

The International Children's Heart Foundation has great expectations, but we do not anticipate saving every unfortunate child born with heart disease. Instead, we are committed to saving as many young lives as our resources can manage in the hope that even one of these children may mature into a great statesman, peacemaker, scientist, philanthropist, or philosopher -- one who will help advance human society another inch or two towards the dream of Carnegie and others.

To this end, we use our limited resources to help those less fortunate, make friends around the world and feel in our hearts that our individual lives have made at least a small difference in the fate of our fellow man.

With the sincerest hope that you will join the International Children's Heart Foundation in
this effort, I am

Yours very truly,

William M. Novick, M.D.

Founder and Medical Director

International Children's Heart Foundation

More information: http://www.babyheart.org
More information Charity Campaign: http://www.frederique-constant.com/charity