Monday, December 19, 2022
Online Tutoring
Hello, my name is Tan Lam, and I want to help your child(ren) with your online tutoring needs for math and science. I have 26 years of experience teaching high school and college students both in-person and online. I have a passion for life-long learning, sharing knowledge, fostering students’ intellectual, social, and emotional growth. I continually monitor and adapt my teaching practices in order to address each student’s rate, level and learning style. Currently offering sessions will be facilitated on Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and/or Zoom.
PERSONALIZED 1-ON-1 ONLINE TUTORING
One-on-one tutoring helps students focus on a specific task or subject, and allows them to experience a different kind of learning to potentially reach new skill and confidence levels.
RATES: $50/hour (rates may vary based on subject and preparation time). Sessions are prorated and last 30 min – 2 hours. You will only be billed for the time we spend tutoring.
CONTACT
Monday, December 12, 2022
Teaching
My name is Tan Lam. I have been teaching high school math and science for 26 years. Prior to becoming a teacher, I was a research scientist and a graduate student at Dartmouth Medical School working on T cell responses to retroviruses (research & publications). My research was published in many professional medical journals such as American Journal of Medical Genetics, Journal of General Virology, Cellular Immunology, Viral Immunology, and Experimental Cell Research. Collectively, I had ten years of experience in medical research.
After graduating from Dartmouth Medical School (Dartmouth College) with a Master's Degree in Biochemistry, I went back to my alma mater to teach Science. My goal was to teach for three to five years and then return to medical school to get a doctorate degree. That was 25 years ago. I did not go back to medical school.
Why did I want to be a teacher? As a former refugee and an English language learner, I have received plenty of assistance from schools, teachers, and nonprofit organizations. My teachers went the extra mile to help me. I feel that I owe a great deal to this country and to my teachers. In my opinion becoming a teacher is one of the best ways to repay my debt to America and to honor my teachers. I want to help students who are “average” or at-risk, like I was to succeed in school and be admitted to colleges and to achieve the American Dream just as I have been blessed to have.
As my teaching career winds down, I have begun to think about what legacy I will leave behind when my life has passed. What is my final dream? In 2019, the Washington State Board of Education approved the Tu Luong Medical Mission Foundation to establish the Seattle Mini Medical School (SMMS), which provides full curriculum for grades 6-12. SMMS will be a blended learning college preparatory school that focuses on STEM, Medicine, and Medical Mission. SMMS is designed for students who are serious about pursuing a career in medicine.
SMMS provides a way to expose high school students to the basic science of medicine and clinical skills early on in their education. Our medical mission will provide students with clinical experiences that instill compassion and help students understand the true meaning of medicine and service. My final chapter of Dreams from Vietnam is to guide, encourage, and educate the future physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to have compassion for the poor and needy both locally and globally.
Contact
Email is the preferred method for initial contact. Thank you.
Tan Lam
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Online Classes
SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS
Supplemental learning can help children struggling to keep up with their grade level, understand the material, and catch up. Supplemental learning can also help advanced children stay challenged and engaged by providing them with advanced material and accelerated instruction (click here for Online Tutoring).
Teacher-assisted facilitated small groups.
Give student feedback on their performance
Students will…
Strengthen their subject knowledge as they master the content of a course
Enhance their ability to learn independently and effectively
Understand concepts, evaluate problems, and develop solutions
Learn to work together to understand different perspectives, analyze critically, and apply new skills
Develop learning skills and study strategies that can be applied to other courses
Contact
Sunday, December 19, 2021
Research & Publications
Cancer Development Model
Cancer cells often arise progressively from “normal” to “pre-cancer” to “transformed” to “local metastasis” to “metastatic disease” to “aggressive metastatic disease.” This research describes a series of mouse cell lines developed sequentially to mimic this type of progression.
Durwood Barber Ray, Ph.D., Gerald A Merrill, Ph.D., Frederic J Brenner, Ph.D., Laurie S Lytle, Tan Lam, et al “T24 HRAS Transformed NIH/3T3 Mouse Cells (GhrasT-NIH/3T3) in Serial Tumorigenic Passages Give Rise to Increasingly Aggressive Tumorigenic Cell Lines T1-A and T2-A and Metastatic Cell Lines T3-HA and T4-PA.” Experimental Cell Research 340, 1-11, 2016.
Publication:
Ray, D. B., Lam, T. M. and Jones, D. H. "Lactate Formation and Mitochondrial DNA Structure in Mouse Cells Progressing to Malignancy." Federation Proceedings, 48 (1990) 763A.
Medical Genetics
After undergraduate, I worked full-time at Children Medical Center in Tulsa studied fragile X syndrome. Our lab used six polymorphic loci, DXS369, DXS297, DXS296, DXS304, IDS and DXS374 to map the fragile X FRAXA chromosome. We report the results of genetic linkage analysis of 32 fragile X [fra(X)] families using 12 polymorphic loci including these new markers. Cytogenetic and molecular data were combined in two-point linkage analysis for the estimation of lod scores and carrier probabilities in potential carriers. Use of these six new marker loci substantially changed the carrier risk estimates for members of 7 of the 32 families from the risk estimates previously calculated on the basis of less closely linked probes available prior to 1989. I was co-author of a publication in this work, appeared in the Amer. J. Medical Genetics 43, 312-319, 1992.
Publication:
Carpenter, Nancy J., Swart-Boyd, Jennifer, Prichard, Jane K., Lam, Tan M. "Linkage and risk assessment in fragile X families using new DNA probes at Xq27." American Journal of Medical Genetics 43, 312-319, 1992.
As a graduate student, I had three laboratory rotations involved in the studying viral enhancer in leukemia specificity, cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT), and gamma interferon MHC class I gene expression. I was a co-author for the study of gamma interferon (Cellular Immunology 150, 90-100, 1993). Finally, my thesis examined the epitope variation in CTL-resistant and identifying of minor and major epitopes in murine leukemia viruses. My research these required my independent analyze experimental results, design follow up experiments, modify techniques, and troubleshoot technical problems. I have two publications derived from my research (Viral Immunology 7:51-59, 1994 and J. of General Virology, 76, 635-641, 1995)
Publications:
Hillary D. White, Douglas A. Roeder, Tan M. Lam, and William R. Green. "Major and Minor Kb-Restricted Epitopes Encoded by the Endogenous Ecotropic Murine Leukemia Virus AKR623 That Are Recognized by Anti-AKR/Gross Virus CTL." Viral Immunology 7, 51-59, 1994.
Publications:
Tan M. Lam, Michael A. Coppola, Rendall R. Strawbridge and William R. Green. "Recognition of Endogenous Ecotropic Murine Leukemia Viruses by Anti-AKR/Gross Virus CTL." J. of General Virology 76, 635-641, 1995.
Contact
Email is the preferred method for initial contact. Thank you.
Email is the preferred method for initial contact. Thank you.
Tan Lam
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