Martin grew up as a child less than four miles away from the McIndoe Surgical Centre    and went to school in East Grinstead. He studied at University College  and Middlesex School of Medicine, where he gained a first class honours  BSc in Anatomy and Neuroscience. He qualified as a doctor in 1993.Following  his General Surgical training at St George’s Hospital, Tooting,  he completed a research degree (MD) at the RAFT Institute for Plastic Surgical Research in 2000. He then started as a Plastic Surgery Registrar on the Pan Thames training scheme taking him to Mount Vernon Hospital,      The Royal Free Hospital and the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead. Martin then completed a Fellowship in Hand Surgery in Sydney Australia,  the Aesthetic (cosmetic) Fellowship at the McIndoe Surgical Centre and  a Microsurgical Fellowship at the Queen Victoria Hospital. He is on the specialist GMC register as an accredited Plastic and Reconstructive  Surgeon and is a Consultant at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead.