Margaret Voges, RN

• Lead Transplant Coordinator, University of Minnesota Medical Center

Margaret Voges leads the National Kidney Registry Operations Committee in working to improve the living donation process, teaching new centers how to navigate the system, and working with experienced centers on how to make improvements and utilize new technologies. She also serves as an educator for NKR regional training sessions and is the lead educator on finding low eplet mismatched donors utilizing the Kidney for Life expert system, which she helped develop.

As lead Paired Exchange Coordinator since 2010, Ms. Voges is responsible for the coordination of care for incompatible pairs, compatible pairs looking for a better match and Good Samaritan donors. She has worked as a Registered Nurse since 1989, obtaining a BA in nursing from the College of St. Catherine. She has worked in organ transplantation since 1991, when she worked as a staff nurse on the solid organ transplant unit. She transitioned to the procurement area, working for the American Red Cross and LifeSource coordinating tissue and organ recoveries. In 2004, she began as a Transplant Coordinator working with pediatric recipients. In 2008, she began as a Living Donor Coordinator.