Victoria Anne Statler, MD

Dr. Statler hails from Louisville, KY. Upon completion of her medical training, she joined the University of Louisville as faculty in 2014. She is currently an assistant professor at the University and the Director of the Pediatric Transplant and Immunocompromised Host service at Norton Children’s Hospital.
In her first year as faculty, Dr. Statler developed the Pediatric Transplant and Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases service. As such, she participates on the transplant multidisciplinary teams and follows both inpatient and outpatient pediatric solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant candidates and recipients at UofL and Norton Children’s Hospital. She is involved in guideline development, immunization review, and prophylaxis and treatment strategies for these patient populations. Dr. Statler is a member of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) Transplant ID Committee and the American Society of Transplantation’s (AST) Infectious Diseases Community of …Practice and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Working Group. She is also the Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at UofL. As faculty, she has also received the Peer Clinician-Educator Excellence Award yearly from the Department of Pediatrics. She speaks frequently on immunizing the immunocompromised host.
Dr. Statler is a site principal investigator for industry-sponsored clinical trials of new antimicrobial agents in immunocompromised children, as well as for Phase III vaccine trials in healthy children.