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Contact Information:
Office: 720-C Birmingham Towers
Phone: 412-904-6127
Fax: 412-904-6125
Additional Information:
Dr. Pringle is an epidemiologist by training with extensive experience in health services research. Her particular areas of expertise are addiction services research, especially research involving the application of screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) within various healthcare settings. Recently, she served as Director of the $12 million federally funded Pennsylvania SBIRT initiative’s Data Coordinating Center (DCC) and as its lead evaluator. Currently, Dr. Pringle is one of the 11 PIs funded by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Association to develop and implement an SBIRT curriculum for medical residencies throughout Pennsylvania. Dr. Pringle also serves on and oversees the Allegheny County Overdose Initiative entitled “Every Life is Worth Saving”, a current program of the Allegheny County Department of Human Services, Bureau of Drug & Alcohol Services and Health Department. She has been involved as a principal investigator or co-investigator for a number of federally funded studies involving health services, patient safety, addiction treatment and addiction and chronic disease prevention research. She has also worked collaboratively with local employer groups and specific employers to evaluate employee prevention/intervention programs. Dr. Pringle has also established the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Pharmacy Program Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU). PERU conducts research and program evaluation efforts for various entities within and outside of the University; it currently acts as the repository for large databases associated with several federally-funded initiatives.