Demetra Stamm, MD, PhD

Demetra Stamm, MD, is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, where she completed a combined MD/PhD training with a doctorate in genetics. She completed her psychiatry residency at San Mateo County and continued as an attending psychiatrist within the Integrated Behavioural Health (IBH) clinic, where she has devoted her career to serving underserved and marginalized populations. She provides psychiatric services within San Mateo Medical Center (SMMC) primary care clinics collaborating with providers who refer their patients to the Integrated Behavioral Health Clinic.  She also provides psychiatry treatment to patients within SMMC’s Gender Care Clinic.  Dr. Stamm is board certified in both Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine.  She contributes to SMMC’s Integrated Addiction Workgroup, which focuses on improving access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorders. She works closely with IBH psychologists to support patients tapering from chronic benzodiazepine use. 

Dr. Stamm's professional interests include medical education, substance-use disorder treatment, community psychiatry, and the delivery of integrative models of health care that are collaborative, holistic, and trauma-informed.  As a therapist, Dr. Stamm has training in psychodynamic psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance Commitment Training (ACT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). 

She enjoys supervising psychology fellows and psychiatry residents and being a mentor for the TNT fellowship. She joined the TNT faculty due to her belief in the importance of integrating mental health into primary care to help increase access and reduce stigma.  Dr. Stamm aims to provide support, resources, and education to primary care providers so they can expand their knowledge and comfort when addressing their patient’s mental health needs.