Harrison Pope
Professor of Psychiatry
Biography
Dr. Harrison G. Pope, Jr. is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA and Director of the Biological Psychiatry Laboratory at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital. Dr. Pope has performed extensive research on anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) since the 1980s, and has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers on the epidemiology, psychiatric effects, and long-term medical effects of AAS use, together with other papers exploring the association of AAS use with body image disorders. Currently, he is conducting a five-year study exploring the potential neurotoxicity of long-term anabolic-androgenic steroid use.