Dr. Elisabeth Volpert, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, FAANP, is a Family Nurse Practitioner and Associate Professor at the University of Louisville School of Nursing. She earned her BSN (2004), MSN (2008), and DNP (2018) from the University of Louisville. With extensive experience teaching primary care courses, she currently instructs on the Business of Healthcare and Healthcare Finance in the university's Doctoral Nursing Program.

As the School of Nursing’s DNP Project Coordinator, Dr. Volpert expertly guides Doctor of Nursing Practice students through their DNP project development and implementation, ensuring they meet program requirements and achieve their research goals.

For over sixteen years, she has independently managed a large, established family medicine practice at the University of Louisville.

Dr. Volpert has presented numerous primary care case studies at state and national conferences. She is the University of Louisville Department of Family Medicine’s Quality Improvement project Coordinator and has implemented several quality improvement projects that span various areas, including diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, prediabetes, mycoplasma and ureaplasma, reimbursement, clinical assessment, and laboratory protocols.

Driven by a commitment to excellence, Dr. Volpert empowers fellow healthcare providers to identify and implement quality improvement initiatives tailored to their primary care practices. She fosters a collaborative environment, enhances patient outcomes, and streamlines processes, ensuring that every provider can deliver the highest standard of care.

Dr. Volpert resides on state and national boards and has published her work on increasing nurses and nurse practitioners reimbursement.

Dr. Volpert also represents the American Nurses Association on the Resource-Based Relative-Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee (HCPAC) and RUC Practice Expense Subcommittee. These committees are responsible for developing RVU recommendations which are submitted to CMS for new, revised, and potentially misvalued codes.