Dr Medina, the owner of the British Surgery of Lanzarote,graduated in 1979. He studied for an Orthopaedic and Trauma specialization in 1985, before attending the Emergency Unit of the Instituto Ortopedico Toscano in Florence, Italy for several years. He then lived and worked in the UK before coming to Lanzarote in the early nineties.

He is a familyman with a wife and five children. He is also a real animal lover, and owns 2 dogs.

Dr Medina enjoys sports in general and constantly works at keeping himself fit. He practices several sports including, tennis, golf and skiing.

He is well known on the Island as the Iron Doc, since he participated for the first time in the Lanzarote Ironman, shortly after his 50th birthday. Since then, Dr Medina has completed three Ironman competitions in Lanzarote, and one in the World Ironman Championship in Kona-Hawaii.

Dr Medina is extremely enthusiastic about Lanzarote's natural beauty and likes to be considered as an unofficial Ambassador for the Island.