Helping you understand scientific methods, topics, and thinking

Chris H.

I am a researcher, receiving my Ph.D. in 2019 (pharmacology, aka chemical biology), with experience in academic and commercial R&D, translational biomedicine, community pharmacy, and interdisciplinary biomed-tech (assay, diagnostic, nano-materials, formulations). I have mentored and taught senior high school, undergrad, and graduate students for well over a decade in online, classroom, small group, and one on one formats -- in the capacities of adjunct professor, active researcher, and independent educator/consultant. I engage students in the form of inferential thinking used by experienced scientific practitioners. I support MCAT prep, core Medical school foundation sciences, core Pharmacy school foundation sciences, career advising, and research mentoring.

I utilize historical and modern case study to highlight the often meandering and conflicted scientific landscape, the ever-important roles of falsification, integrity, and ethics. How one thinks about a concept, method, model, or idea is often the most important aspect of research.

I instruct and tutor on a range of topics from discipline specific foundations (biological, molecular, chemical, analytical, pharmacological, biophysical, biomedical) to the empirical methods, literature analysis, and writing that guides aspiring researchers in grad school. My instruction is tailored to both student-provided material and de-novo lesson work.

My methodology with students seeks to build confidence with the 'unknown', to build understanding through visualization, and to build the mental muscles that result in "finally getting it". Tutoring is distinct from teaching (whether lecture, didactic, Socratic, etc.). With high volume teaching environments (like a lecture hall), many students become lost trying to assess what the instructor is trying to teach, often because a lack of descriptive power and over-explained jargon get in the way. My objective with all students is to give them the tools to master their own learning journey, now and into the future.