Susan D. Ruppert, PhD, APRN, FNP-C, ANP-BC, FCCM, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN, holds the PARTNERS Endowed Professorship in Nursing and is a professor and the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies. She was named a Minnie Stevens Piper Professor in 2021, received a 2018 University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (ROTA), and has been inducted into The University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine, M.D. Academy of Health Science Education as a Distinguished Teaching Professor. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP), the American College of Critical-Care Medicine (FCCM), and the National Academies of Practice (FNAP). She is also an AACN Wharton Fellow.

Ruppert has been a textbook editor and contributor and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (JAANP). She is a reviewer and author for numerous journals. Ruppert has acted as a national and international practice, education, and accreditation consultant for colleges of nursing in the United States, Oman, and Hong Kong.

Ruppert has held numerous national leadership roles in professional organizations. She is a former chair of the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) Board of Commissioners. She also served as Co-Chair of the CCNE Accreditation Review Committee, and was a member of the CCNE Report Review Committee, and the CCNE Standards Committees for 2017-2018 and 2022-2023. Additionally, she served as Co-Chair of the CCNE Nurse Practitioner Residency/Fellowship Standards Committee, Vice-Chair of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB) Board of Commissioners, and a member of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials Revision Task Force. Currently, she is the Chair of the FAANP Executive Committee and serves on the AACN Essentials Implementation Steering Committee.

Ruppert is certified as both a Family Nurse Practitioner and an Adult Nurse Practitioner and maintains a faculty practice.