Houtaneh H.

Naturopathic Doctor teaching Organic Chem, Biochem, and Beyond!

Naturopathic Doctor teaching Organic Chem, Biochem, and Beyond!

Welcome students! I am an naturopathic physician in Scottsdale, Arizona, teaching organic chemistry and biochemistry in my spare time. I quite enjoy teaching these subjects as a hobby because they are foundational to the medicine that I practice, and because the subjects are so much fun!

Prior to owning my full-time naturopathic medical practice, I graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor's Degree in Biochemistry and a minor in Psychology. During my time at Syracuse, I began tutoring Organic Chemistry as a way to improve my own understanding of the subject, and immediately fell in love with teaching it--10+ years later, I still love every second of tutoring!

Given the feedback I've received from my students over the last decade, I think my passion for the sciences is evident in my teaching methods. I encourage a great deal of hands-on problem-solving, with an emphasis of WHY the mechanism occurs as it does. Wherever applicable, I suggest the usage of molecular models to support the visual aspect of Organic Chemistry, because, after all, to deal with molecules is to deal with physical entities whose physical geography matters.

As the years have gone by, I've also added nutrition and genetics to my repertoire. As a naturopathic physician, one of my strengths is nutrition and applying that to daily life, and I also love teaching it to students.

I aim to make learning science fun, and most of all, to make it stick!