About the Author: Mauro Di Pasquale, MD

Mauro DiPasquale was an assistant professor at the University of Toronto for ten years (1988 to 1998) lecturing and researching on athletic performance, nutritional supplements and drug use in sports.

He has instituted and managed many drug testing programs for private companies such as Experimental and Applied Research and Muscle Media, for amateur and professional sports federations including several national and international bodybuilding and powerlifting federations, and both the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Bodybuilding Federation (WBF). He was the Drug Program Advisor to the WWF and Medical Director and Drug Program Advisor to the WBF. He is the acting MRO for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). Mauro has been actively involved in international sports and drug testing for the past thirty-five years, as an athlete, an administrator and a physician.

Mauro was a world-class athlete for over twenty years, winning the world championships in Powerlifting in 1976, and the World Games in the sport of Powerlifting in 1981. He was Canadian champion eight times, Pan American champion twice, and North American champion twice. He was the first Canadian Powerlifter to become a World Champion and first Canadian Powerlifter to total 10 times bodyweight in any weight class and the only Canadian to ever total ten times bodyweight in two weight classes.

Over the last four decades Mauro has had extensive exposure to athletic injuries and disabilities, and drug use by athletes. He has been chairman/member of several national and international powerlifting, bodybuilding and Olympic weight lifting sports federation medical committees. Over this period of time Mauro acted as a consultant, medical advisor, drug testing officer and technical expert on the pharmacology and pathophysiology of sports drug testing.

In the early 1980's, Mauro initiated and developed the IPF drug testing protocols and procedures and was the chairman of the International Powerlifting Federation's Medical Committee for eight years (1979 - 1987). At present Mauro is the President of the Pan American (North, Central and South America, Bermuda, the Bahamas and the Caribbean Islands) Powerlifting Federation and the North American Vice President of the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF).