Our Commitment to Your Success

Our leadership team understands medical professionals have limited time and need review courses and curriculum that lead to success on board exams, licensure and advanced certification. You don't just want to pass your board exams, but want to stand out among your colleagues as a knowledgeable practitioner that will change healthcare for the better. You need a review course and curriculum that is affordable and flexible to fit into your life.

At High-Yield, we stand ready with the tools to help you achieve your goals. Our online lectures, e-books, q-banks and webinar study groups are all designed to help you achieve your goals with flexibility.

Our curriculum is based on an educational philosophy that will help you advance beyond mere memorization to a higher level of critical thinking and application of medical information. With High-Yield, you won't just pass your exam- you'll be propelled to a higher career path and make a greater impact on the patients relying on you. We are committed to your success as you advance your career and impact healthcare for good.

Anthony J. Busti, MD, PharmD, MSc, FNLA, FAHA

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Busti is passionate about training healthcare providers not just to know the right answers to clinically relevant questions, but to truly grasp the rationales leading to those answers.

He created High-Yield Med Reviews with that vision in mind, believing if we can integrate medical knowledge across disciplines and increase true understanding instead of memorization, we can have a positive impact on healthcare as a whole.

Healthcare Provider and Medical Educator

Dr. Busti has a unique background as a healthcare provider and medical educator having trained and practiced as a nurse (BSN, RN), clinical pharmacist (PharmD), and a physician (MD).

While working on his PharmD at Texas Tech Univ Health Sciences Center, he worked as an RN in a level 1 surgical trauma ICU and emergency department. Upon obtaining his PharmD, he completed a post-doctoral pharmacy residency at the University of Texas at Austin and Scott & White Hospital. He then taught clinical pharmacology and did clinical research as an Associate Professor at Texas Tech Univ Health Sciences Center in Dallas, Texas, where he also taught in the NIH Clinical Scholars program at UT Southwestern.

During this time, he also served as Chairman to the State of Texas Drug Utilization Review Board, a Governor-appointed member to the State of Texas P&T Committee, taught clinical pharmacology at both Baylor University and Texas Woman's University, and founded High-Yield Med Reviews.

He then obtained his MD at Texas A&M College of Medicine, completed a 4-year Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a Masters of Science (MSc) in Evidenced-Based Health Care from Oxford University. He currently practices as a physician in the Emergency Department.

Tamzen Baker

President

Tamzen is committed to the High-Yield mission of Impacting Healthcare for Good through Premier Medical Education. Tamzen's experience in government relations and business-to-government consulting honed her skills in relationship and process management. Her years in non-profit management and client services trained Tamzen to see our customers and care about their experience with our company.

Tamzen formerly served as the Chief Operation Officer of High-Yield Med Reviews where her focus on operational management and strategic development accelerated the company's growth and led to the next step of High-Yield's evolution.

Tamzen's role as President is focused on ensuring High-Yield customers, content, and products drive the High-Yield mission and do so with excellence. She focuses resources and strategic priorities to ensure our customer groups experience the content, platform, and support they need to be equipped for success on board exams and in clinical practice.

Craig Cocchio, PharmD, BCPS, DABAT

Associate Editor
Director of Continuing Education

Dr. Cocchio is a clinical pharmacist specializing in emergency medicine, clinical toxicologist, and PGY-2 emergency medicine residency program director at CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System in Tyler, Texas. Dr. Cocchio is a former Chair of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Emergency Medicine Practice Research Network and also the creator, editor-in-chief, and blogger at the EM PharmD Blog; focusing on emergency medicine from the perspective of the pharmacist.

Dr. Cocchio uses his unique training and experience to assist in the development and delivery of premier educational materials at High-Yield Med Reviews.

Cassie Boland, PharmD, BCACP, CDCES

Associate Editor
Director of Curriculum & Assessment

Dr. Boland is a clinical pharmacist specializing in ambulatory care but who has also practiced in other clinical environments, including the emergency department, antimicrobial stewardship team, and hospital pharmacy practice. In addition, Dr. Boland has also been in academia for over 10 years, where she helped to train both pharmacy students and residents. During her time in academia, she not only served as faculty for a number of courses that she had to develop but was also involved in the institution's annual assessments of students in the program.

Dr. Boland's unique training, broad experiences in clinical practice, and positions in academia have allowed her to help lead and assist in developing, implementing, and assessing premier educational materials at High-Yield Med Reviews.

Leslie Houston, BSN

director of Institutional Accounts

Leslie's professional career as a registered nurse, who worked many years caring for patients in the ICU, and work in the management of contracts gives her insight into nursing education and how to maximize our educational resources for curriculum support. She not only oversees the acquisition and overall implementation of our institutional contracts with universities, hospitals, and post-graduate training programs in medicine and pharmacy, but she serves on the leadership team that helps with strategic planning and achievement of organizational objectives.

Carrie Hughes, MA

Director of Operations

Carrie joined the High-Yield team in 2019 as support for Customer Service and Operations. Her professional background includes television sales with Turner Sports and serving as a teacher with Teach for America in inner city Atlanta. Her graduate school education focused on systems and communication theories as well as clinical therapy training.

Carrie gained a comprehensive understanding of the functional aspects of High-Yield over time and has clear insight into customer needs. As Director of Operations, she serves as a member of the leadership team participating in strategic planning with a focus on accelerating business development. She manages the daily activity of High-Yield and strives to improve efficiency across departments with a focus on long-term success.

Brooke Rice

Director of Customer Service

Brooke has grown with the company starting out in customer service as an agent but quickly demonstrated a lot of leadership and growth in the work of the company. The best department leaders are those that have done the jobs they are now overseeing. Brooke's aim as the director is to help lead a team of staff to help provide an overwhelmingly positive customer experience as they acquire and interact with our products and services. Customer service does not end at the time of purchase but continues throughout the entire time the customer is utilizing our educational material. This is done not only to aid in the customer's success in acquiring a greater level of knowledge but also to foster long-term proponents of High-Yield Med Reviews by producing returning customers and referrals through an excellent experience.

Sara Vara

Director of Marketing & Product Innovation

As a previous business founder and owner of a successful dance studio, Sara was integral in developing innovative marketing plans to grow her own business over time and strategies to allow her students to be competitive in dance. In developing a successful marketing plan for her business, she utilized a wide variety of products and media that have allowed her to have the real-world experience to take a product or service to a higher level of value and reach in the market. Upon selling her business, she is now spending more time with her growing family and using her business experience in innovative marketing strategies for business growth here at High-Yield.

Sara is in charge of a number of new initiatives that are expanding our marketing efforts and engagement with customers interacting with a wide variety of software platforms and marketing services. This allows product innovation and expansion to be maximized. Part of her drive is the excitement to figure new things out and find purposeful ways to maximize their marketing capabilities for each unique product and service High-Yield offers to many healthcare professionals worldwide.