General Director, Directorate-General for the Common Catalogue of Services of the National Health System and Pharmacy, Spanish Ministry of Health . From 2009-2022, Head of Medicines for Human Use Department- Spanish Medicines Agency . PhD in Medicine (Complutense University of Madrid) specialised in rheumatology. He was deputy medical director at the Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid between 2005 and 2009 and worked as a rheumatologist for different periods in the same centre.