Dr. Priebe earned a bachelor of science degree with scholastic distinction from The University of Michigan. He went to medical school at Wayne State University in Detroit and performed his internship and internal medicine residency at St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

From 1977 through 1978, Dr. Priebe held a clinical teaching position at The University of Michigan. Subsequently, he had a gastroenterology fellowship at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. In 1980, he opened his private gastroenterology practice in Tacoma, and in 1977, he associated with Tacoma Digestive Disease Center.

Dr. Priebe is a past president of the Tacoma Academy of Internal Medicine and is a fellow in the American College of Gastroenterology.