Mr Pringle qualified from St Georges Hospital Medical School, London in 1983. He then gained experience in ENT and the related specialities of neurosurgery, plastic surgery and general surgery gaining the General Surgical Fellowship in 1988, before embarking on ENT training in 1989. He trained at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital in London and in Bristol and Exeter, after which he undertook a years Fellowship in Melbourne working in the department of Professor Graeme Clarke inventor of the Nucleus Cochlear Implant.
In 1997 Mr Pringle was appointed as Consultant ENT Surgeon at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth and Consultant Otologist to the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre (SOECIC) in Southampton. He is now the senior cochlear implant surgeon at SOECIC and has performed over 200 cochlear implants on patients from 7 months old to 90 years old. He introduced the Neurelec binaural Cochlear Implant to the UK nad performed the first operation in this country in 2010 allowing deaf adults to hear in both ears.
Although hearing aids are effective for many people, some are unable to use them for a variety of reasons. There are many possible surgical solutions which Mr Pringle undertakes and he is always on the look out for new ways to help treat people with hearing loss who do not gain benefit from hearing aids.
He also has extensive experience in the surgical management of cholestatoma in adults and children, using a technique which maintains a normal ear canal.
He has performed over 1000 major ear operations and works closely with the Audiological Physicians, providing a service for the surgical treatment of Menieres disease using Transtympanic Gentamicin or endolymphatic sac surgery.
Mr Pringle was Clinical Director of the ENT Department of Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth for four years. He is now the Educational Supervisor for the ENT trainee doctors. He runs a temporal bone course for all ENT trainees in the Wessex region.