Dr. Harrison G. Pope, Jr. is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and Director of the Biological Psychiatry Laboratory at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA. He has authored more than 320 peer-reviewed papers on a wide range of topics in psychiatry, including work on psychotic disorders, major mood disorders, eating disorders, and substance abuse. Since the 1980s, Dr. Pope taken a particular interest in the abuse of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS). His published papers in this field have encompassed the psychiatric effects of AAS, the association of AAS use with male body image disorders, studies of the epidemiology of AAS use, and studies of the neuropsychiatric and medical consequences of long-term AAS exposure. Dr. Pope has presented the findings of this research at numerous international scientific meetings and has also appeared in many popular media presentations and documentary films on the subject.