Sonja McLendon is the Chief of Operational Excellence at Northeast Georgia Health System. In this role she leads the organization’s lean transformation, Performance Improvement, Patient Safety, Quality and Accreditation, Patient Experience, Infection Prevention and Control Activities, and facilitates Strategy Deployment throughout the Enterprise. She also is serving as the Interim President for NGMC Lumpkin and NGMC Barrow and is an adjunct professor at Brenau University.