North Shore Medical Center in Salem has hired Barbara Corning-Davis, the clinical imaging manager in NSMC’s department of radiology, to serve as the new director of operational improvement.

Corning-Davis will create and manage a resource that will help NSMC leaders and managers identify and realize opportunities for operational improvement. Her department will collaborate with operational improvement staff at other Partners Healthcare, Inc. institutions, including Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

She will also work to strengthen NSMC’s At Your Service program, the initiative to provide employees and medical staff with the support and empowerment to ensure patients and families have a superior experience at NSMC.

Corning-Davis received her bachelor of science in Industrial Engineering from Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y. She has held significant operational management responsibilities in both high-tech and health care including experience at Children’s Hospital, Boston. In 2001, she earned a master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She lives in Gloucester with her husband, Jack, and two children, Max and Samantha.