Operations Committee

Karen Miller, RN

• Lead Kidney Paired Exchange Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Karen Miller is the Chair of the NKR Operations Committee. She started her career caring for kidney, kidney/pancreas and liver transplant recipients as well as kidney donors in the Inpatient Transplant Unit at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. She became a kidney transplant coordinator there in 2004, then transitioned to the desensitization program for kidney and kidney/pancreas transplant recipients. In 2010, UW joined the National Kidney Registry and Ms. Miller became the lead Paired Kidney Exchange Coordinator. When it comes to making a transplant happen, her motto is: "whatever it takes."