Victoria A. Statler, M.D., M.Sc., is a pediatric infectious diseases physician with Norton Children's Infectious Diseases and the Director of the Pediatric Transplant and Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases Service at Norton Children's Hospital, which she developed in 2014. As such, she participates on the transplant multidisciplinary teams and follows both inpatient and outpatient pediatric solid organ and hematopoietic 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 Program Director for the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at UofL. As faculty, she has also received the Peer Clinician-Educator Excellence Award 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.

Dr. Statler graduated cum laude and received a B.S. in Biology from Davidson College in 2003. She graduated in 2007 from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Louisville in 2019 and a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the UofL School of Medicine and Norton Children's Hospital in 2014. During that time, she also completed a Master of Science in Clinical Investigative Sciences from the University of Louisville and has served as a faculty member at the UofL School of Medicine since 2014.