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Laura E. Stamm, Ph.D.

Laura E. Stamm, Ph.D.

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Laura Stamm, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Humanities & Bioethics at the University of Rochester Medical Center where she also serves as Director of Community Engagement and Health Improvement for the Department of Medicine (DOM). In her role as the Director of Community Engag...
Laura Stamm, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Humanities & Bioethics at the University of Rochester Medical Center where she also serves as Director of Community Engagement and Health Improvement for the Department of Medicine (DOM). In her role as the Director of Community Engagement and Health Improvement, she has developed DOM’s strategic plan for community outreach and engagement to increase community participation in research and clinical interventions. She is also the founder and organizer of the DOM Research in Healthy Equity Symposium. Dr. Stamm is a Health Equity Scholars for Action fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is passionate about community-based research methods. Her research focuses on the ethics of care provision and research with marginalized populations. Her work appears in various journals and media outlets, including Journal of Adolescent Medicine, Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, American Journal of Public Health, The Journal of Pediatrics, The Hill, and Bioethics Today.

Faculty Appointments

Assistant Professor - Department of Medicine, General Medicine (SMD)

Assistant Professor - Department of Health Humanities and Bioethics (SMD) - Joint

Credentials

Awards

Susan B Anthony Emerging Leader Award. 2025

Health Equity Scholars for Action Fellow. 2024 - 2026

Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship. 2017 - 2018

Eric O. Clarke Dissertation Prize.

Publications

Journal Articles

Supporting Providers Who Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth: A Guide for Institutions.

Stamm L

The Journal of pediatrics.. 2026 February 289 :114903. Epub 11/13/2025.

Dangers of a Politically Motivated Research Agenda on Transgender Health.

Schall TE, Moses JD, Dietz EA, Stamm LE, Penny J, Scheim AI

American journal of public health.. 2026 February 116 (2):192-196. Epub 1900 01 01.

How to improve the cancer continuum for transgender and gender-diverse patients.

Schall TE, Scout N, Shanker A, Stamm LE

JNCI cancer spectrum.. 2026 January 910 (1)Epub 1900 01 01.

Building Capacity in Translational Research Ethics among Early Stage Investigators: A Pilot Course on the Ethics of the Clinician-Researcher Dual-Role

Stamm, L; Daniello, M; Shirin, A; McIntosh, S; Luck, MP; Mercado, N; Raz, M; Ross, L; Herington, J.

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2026; .

The Impact of Politicization on Adolescent Medicine Care: A Rapid Review.

Stamm L, De Leon B, Stoudemire DM, Insalaco ME, Shirin A, Martin-Olenski M, Daley C, Stojanovski K

Current pediatrics reports.. 2026 14 (1):7. Epub 07/08/2026.

Moral Distress Among Gender-Affirming Care Providers for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth.

Stamm L, Shirin A, Muneath I, Daly C, Daniello M

The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine.. 2025 December 77 (6):1160-1167. Epub 09/25/2025.

Ethical considerations for conducting research with transgender and gender-diverse patient registries: Balancing our need for evidence with patient vulnerability.

Stamm L, Levandowski BA, Shirin A, Lytle M

Journal of public health research.. 2025 October 14 (4):22799036251395269. Epub 11/20/2025.

Providers' Beliefs and Values: Understanding Their Approach to Gender-Affirming Care

Shirin, A; Daniello, M; Stamm, L.

Journal of Primary Care and Community Health. 2025; .

Disparities in the cancer continuum experienced by transgender and gender-diverse patients: A rapid review

Stamm, LE; Stojanovski, K; Insalaco, ME; Wright, L; Kamen, C; Fung, C.

Cancer. 2025; .

'I'm just providing evidence-based medical care': Experiences of Distress in Queer and Queer-Adjacent Clinicians Providing Gender-Affirming Care

Insalaco, M.E.; Stamm, L.

International Journal of Transgender Health. 2025; .

Building Capacity and Trust through Community Engagement: Lessons Learned from a Research in Health Equity Symposium.

Stamm L, Shirin A, Jenkins A, Fung C

Journal of primary care & community health.. 2025 16 :21501319251370612. Epub 08/30/2025.

Pose and HIV/AIDS: The Creation of a Trans of Color Past

Stamm, L.

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 2020; 7(4).

Her Story: On the Possibilities of Trans Short Form Media

Stamm, L.

MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture. 2020; 6.

Becoming the Virus: Queer Art that Infects

Stamm, L.

Spectator. 2019; .

Delphinium's Portrait of Queer History: Rethinking Derek Jarman's Legacy

Stamm, L.

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. 2018; 16.

Review of American Independent Cinema: Rites of Passage and the Crisis Image, by Anna Backman Rogers

Stamm, L.

New Review of Film and Television. 2017; 15(2).

Review of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, by Laura Horak

Stamm, L.

Feminist Media Studies. 2016; .

Minding the Gaps: The Semiotic as Gender Subversion in Mulholland Dr.

Stamm, L.

Burning Daylight. 2012; 1.

From the Clinic to the Talk Show: Narratives of Trans History in Framing Agnes

Stamm, L.

Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. .

Sex Data in Research: A Sex Contextualist Suggestion

Sanaeikia, R.; Stamm, L.

Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. .

The Threat of a Bad Gay Past: Queer Temporalities in The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Stamm, L.

Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. .

Books

New Queer Television: From Marginalization to Mainstreamification (2024)

Chapter: Que soy marimacha': Vida's Queer Inheritance

Authors: Stamm, L.

Publisher: Intellect Ltd. 2024

The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era (2022)

Authors: Laura Stamm

Publisher: Oxford University Press 2022