Rate My Professor Kevin Pringle

Professor Kevin Pringle is an Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Women’s Health at the University of Otago, Wellington, within the Medicine faculty. He earned his MBChB from the University of Otago in 1970 and holds FRACS qualifications. After training as a paediatric surgeon, Pringle spent seven years at the University of Iowa in the United States, advancing to Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery. He returned to New Zealand in 1987 as Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Surgery at the Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, with a joint appointment as Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Wellington Hospital. Promoted to Professor of Paediatric Surgery in 2000, he established the first specialist paediatric surgical service in Wellington and served as Clinical Leader in Paediatric Surgery at Capital and Coast District Health Board until retiring from clinical practice in July 2015. Pringle also headed the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Otago, Wellington, from 2000 to 2014.