Lake Nona Medical City is a 650-acre (260 ha) health and life sciences park in Orlando, Florida, United States.

[5][6] In March 2006, the Florida Board of Governors voted to approve UCF's proposal to build a medical college at Lake Nona, and the school greeted its first students in fall 2009.

[7] In 2012, UCF purchased an additional 25 acres (10 ha) of land at Lake Nona to construct a teaching hospital.

[8] The medical city is surrounded by education facilities, five million square feet of commercial and retail space, and a mix of residential options.

Upon completion of construction of the various projects, UCF's Health Science Campus will accommodate as many as 5,000 upper division, professional, and graduate students and faculty members in the health-related programs, and include up to two million square feet of research and instruction space.