Professional Affiliations:
Research Professor, Director of Telehealth, Director, Director, National Child Traumatic Stress Network Center for Rural, Frontier and Tribal Health; Director, Institute of Rural Health, Idaho State University

NARMH Positions and Projects
Beth’s organization, the ISU Institute of Rural Health has been an institutional member of NARMH since 2000. Beth has served as a conference reviewer for several NARMH conferences since 1998. In an addition, through Beth’s project, NARMH became an outreach partner for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Center for Rural, Frontier, and Tribal Health.

Rural Mental Health Involvement and Contributions
Working primarily with rural underserved peoples, Stamm's efforts focuses on health policy, cultural trauma, and secondary traumatic stress among health care providers where telehealth figures prominently. She pioneered teaching of technology and telehealth to psychology undergraduate and graduate students and was a contributor to the American Psychological Association Board of Directors Task Force on Distance Education in Professional Psychology (2002). She currently serves on the APA Presidential Initiative “Healthcare for the Whole Person,” where she heads the rural subgroup and has in the past served on the APA Committee on Rural Health and the Committee on Aging. At the National Rural Health Association, she has served as the Chair of the Government Affairs Committee and Vice-Chair of the Policy Board. She is also the President of the Idaho Psychological Association and Past President of the Idaho Rural Health Association. In 2005, she received an APA Presidential Citation for her contributions to the development of the fields of traumatic stress, telehealth and rural health. In 2004, she was recognized by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Public Interest Award for “fundamental and outstanding contributions to the public’s understanding of trauma.” She and her colleagues have been recognized multiple times by the American Telemedicine Association for “scientific rigor and contributions to the field” of their work in telehealth and telemedicine. In 2004, Stamm was selected as the Idaho State University Distinguished Researcher.

Research Professor, Director of Telehealth, Director, Director, National Child Traumatic Stress Network Center for Rural, Frontier and Tribal Health; Director, Institute of Rural Health, Idaho State University

Beth’s organization, the ISU Institute of Rural Health has been an institutional member of NARMH since 2000. Beth has served as a conference reviewer for several NARMH conferences since 1998. In an addition, through Beth’s project, NARMH became an outreach partner for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Center for Rural, Frontier, and Tribal Health.

Rural Mental Health Involvement and Contributions
Working primarily with rural underserved peoples, Stamm's efforts focuses on health policy, cultural trauma, and secondary traumatic stress among health care providers where telehealth figures prominently. She pioneered teaching of technology and telehealth to psychology undergraduate and graduate students and was a contributor to the American Psychological Association Board of Directors Task Force on Distance Education in Professional Psychology (2002). She currently serves on the APA Presidential Initiative “Healthcare for the Whole Person,” where she heads the rural subgroup and has in the past served on the APA Committee on Rural Health and the Committee on Aging. At the National Rural Health Association, she has served as the Chair of the Government Affairs Committee and Vice-Chair of the Policy Board. She is also the President of the Idaho Psychological Association and Past President of the Idaho Rural Health Association. In 2005, she received an APA Presidential Citation for her contributions to the development of the fields of traumatic stress, telehealth and rural health. In 2004, she was recognized by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Public Interest Award for “fundamental and outstanding contributions to the public’s understanding of trauma.” She and her colleagues have been recognized multiple times by the American Telemedicine Association for “scientific rigor and contributions to the field” of their work in telehealth and telemedicine. In 2004, Stamm was selected as the Idaho State University Distinguished Researcher.