Edward Ege Receives
Thomas J. Garrison Award

Edward Ege (left) receives the Thomas J. Garrison Award
from Amy Sipe, MSHP President

Thomas J. Garrison Achievement Award - Edward Ege.

The Garrison Award is presented to an active MSHP member in recognition of sustained contribution in multiple areas:

• Outstanding accomplishment in practice in health system pharmacy;
• Outstanding poster or spoken presentation at a state or national meeting;
• Publication in a nationally recognized pharmacy or medical journal;
• Demonstrated activity with pharmacy students from St. Louis or the UMKC Schools of Pharmacy;
• Development of an innovative service in a health system pharmacy in either education, administration, clinical service, or distribution;
• Contributions to the profession through service to ASHP, MSHP and/or local affiliates.

The recipient is selected by the Board of the MSHP Research and Education Foundation.

Dr. Ege obtained his Bachelor of Science in Biology and his Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from the University of Nebraska and completed a Pharmacy Practice Residency at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Illinois. He then served in several Clinical roles at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics covering the specialties of Urology, General Surgery, Stroke Care, General Medicine, Oncology, Hematology, Bone Marrow and Renal Transplant, Neurosurgery, and Adult and Pediatric Critical Care.

Dr. Ege is now the Coordinator of the Anticoagulation Service and the Pharmacy Dosing Service at the University of Missouri Healthcare in Columbia. He also serves as their Residency Director.

Dr. Ege also holds appointments as Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy, the St. Louis College of Pharmacy and Drake University College of Pharmacy.

In 1995, Ed received the Outstanding Patient Educator for Pharmacy Award.

Here are some of the comments received for his nomination:

“In April 2007 [the warfarin] service reached a milestone of having served over 5,000 patients on warfarin. Dr. Ege now maintains an active daily warfarin patient caseload of between 450-500 patients. Dr. Ege's devotion to this service was the reason for it's success. Due to his self-taught expertise in anticoagulation pharmacotherapy Dr. Ege is now an integral part of the hospital's Venous Thrombembolism quality improvement task force and he has served as an expert speaker for anticoagulation CE programs. In addition to his dosing service excellence, over the years Dr. Ege has precepted a multitude of undergraduate pharmacy students from six midwestern colleges of pharmacy. He always gets high marks from his students for his attentive devotion to their learning experience.

Also, over the past 6 years, Dr. Ege has been a key leader in the initiation, development, and sustainment of of MU's pharmacy practice residency program. Here again, he has contributed mightily to each resident's year-long experience and has served as the resident's major project advisor on numerous occasions.

Finally, it is worth noting that Dr. Ege accomplishes his work with a mix of professional devotion and joviality that contribute to his excellent rapport with pharmacy staff, hospital staff, and patients.”

As you can see, Edward Ege is deserving of this distinguished award.