Mary Beth Welty has been an AIA/AAH Research Committee member since 2020 and helped to originate the clinic benchmarking subcommittee in 2021.  A healthcare planner with 10+ years of experience in over 80 different inpatient and outpatient departments ranging from behavioral health to ambulatory care and multiprocedural specialty clinics, she has been critical to the AIA/AAH clinic benchmarking effort.  For 9 years she has led benchmarking processes and Evidenced Based Design research efforts both within the AIA and in her role as a healthcare planner.  Mary Beth is an expert at leveraging efficiencies and software to streamline workflows and solve problems.  She is passionate about benchmarking healthcare projects because she knows that it allows our industry to better understand the data we already have by analyzing current and past spaces and using that information to help inform our future projects and is excited about the potential knowledge and ideas that benchmarking projects can provide.