Iman Nazeeri-Simmons, MPH, SVP, COO of St. Charles Health System in Bend, has been awarded the Dr. Samuel E. Carlson Leadership Impact Award. Simmons has been on her personal journey of becoming a lean health care executive for the last decade. She embodies all that the award stands for in lean health care deployment. She is a visionary thinker, passionate about health care, and believes it is a basic human right.