Built by a nurse who lived the problem
Nurse Passport was created by two lifelong friends - a Family Nurse Practitioner and an entrepreneur - who believe clinicians deserve tools built around the real demands of practicing across multiple states.
Neelia Miller has spent more than 15 years as a Family Nurse Practitioner across urgent care, emergency medicine, occupational medicine, pediatrics, weight management, and telehealth. For more than a decade, she also worked as a locum tenens nurse practitioner, accepting assignments across the United States, including California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, and Massachusetts.
As her career expanded, so did the administrative burden.
Maintaining licenses across multiple states meant tracking renewal dates, licensing fees, continuing education requirements, DEA registrations, controlled substance permits, board certifications, malpractice records, immunization documents, credentialing packets, receipts, and countless other professional records. Every new role brought another request for the same information. Every credentialing application meant manually entering license numbers, issue dates, expiration dates, state details, and supporting documentation again and again.
Like many nurse practitioners, Neelia relied on Google Drive folders, spreadsheets, calendar reminders, and self-made PDFs to stay organized. It worked, but only barely. None of those tools were built for the reality of clinicians practicing across multiple states.
The frustration became even clearer when Neelia became a Nurse Practitioner professor. She found herself advising students to organize their careers with folders and spreadsheets, while knowing that the profession deserved something better.
That realization became the foundation for My Nurse Passport.
Neelia did not create My Nurse Passport because she wanted to start a software company. She created it because she spent more than a decade living the problem. She understood firsthand how much time nurse practitioners lose searching for documents, repeating credentialing information, tracking renewals, and managing the administrative side of their careers.
My Nurse Passport is the platform she wishes had existed throughout her own career: a secure, organized place where nurse practitioners can manage licenses, DEA registrations, controlled substance permits, board certifications, continuing education, credentialing documents, expenses, receipts, renewal costs, and supporting records.
Built from real clinical experience, the platform helps clinicians enter information once, store it in one searchable location, and generate organized reports when they need to apply for a new role, credential with a hospital, accept a locum assignment, work with a recruiter, or prepare expense records.
Neelia believes nurse practitioners should spend more time caring for patients and less time searching for paperwork. My Nurse Passport was built to make that possible.
Maria Lavithi is an entrepreneur, mentor, and innovation strategist who is passionate about turning real-world problems into practical technology solutions. She has spent her career building, shaping, and supporting ideas that solve meaningful challenges for people and organizations.
As Co-Founder of My Nurse Passport, Maria brings a strong background in business development, product strategy, storytelling, and execution. Her role is focused on helping transform Neelia's firsthand experience as a nurse practitioner into a platform that is clear, useful, scalable, and built around the real needs of clinicians.
Maria is relentlessly driven, unapologetically passionate, and fiercely committed to building something that matters. She believes that meaningful innovation starts by listening to the people living the problem, understanding what is broken, and creating tools that make their lives easier.
Together with Neelia, Maria is helping bring My Nurse Passport to nurse practitioners and registered nurses across the United States, with the goal of reducing administrative stress and giving clinicians back more time for the work that matters most.
A friendship 25 years in the making
Neelia and Maria first met 25 years ago at Colorado State University and have remained close friends ever since. Over the decades, their careers took them in different directions: Neelia into advanced nursing practice and telehealth, and Maria into entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology.
Now, they have come together with one shared mission: to bring My Nurse Passport to the nurses and nurse practitioners who need it most.
What began as Neelia's lived experience became a bigger vision through their collaboration: a platform built by someone who understands the problem firsthand, and shaped by founders who believe technology should solve real problems for real people.