Jean Kinney, affiliated with the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth was the associate director of the Alcohol Counselor Training Program at Dartmouth conducted between 1972 and 1978, the program that was the impetus for this text. Upon the completion of this program, she joined Project Cork, a program established to develop and implement a model curriculum for medical student education. In 1999 she was the first recipient of the NIAAA's Senator Harold Hughes Award, in recognition of her professional efforts to translate scientific work into clinical practice.
