Lake Nona Regional Chamber Business Luncheon

How Your Lake Nona Hospital is Shaping the Future of Healthcare

Speaker: Wendy Brandon, CEO UCF Lake Nona Hospital

It’s been three years since Lake Nona’s only full-service, acute-care hospital serving everyone opened in our community. UCF Lake Nona Hospital CEO Wendy Brandon will share advancements being made right here in Lake Nona that are impacting the entire healthcare industry now and for future generations. UCF Lake Nona Hospital - where technology meets compassion, where innovation meets excellence, and where Lake Nona Boulevard meets Medical City Drive.




 

Wendy Brandon spoke to graduates of the UCF College of Health Professions and Sciences, College of Medicine and College of Nursing during the ceremony at Addition Financial Arena. She was welcomed and introduced by UCF President Alexander N. Cartwright.
 
UCF Lake Nona Hospital is a partnership hospital between the University of Central Florida Academic Health Sciences Center and HCA Healthcare. For the past seven years, Brandon has led the design and development of the hospital campus and built a premiere team of talented people to serve Lake Nona and the communities in Southeast Orange and Osceola Counties through this technologically advanced new medical facility.

Brandon is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. Since 1995, she has held numerous leadership positions in hospitals owned by HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services.

Through her volunteer leadership, she has worked to improve quality of life in the Orlando region by serving as a trustee and chairman of the Board for Seminole State College. She currently serves as a board member and former chairman of the Board of CareerSource Central Florida and is a member of the Orlando Economic Partnership Board of Directors. Additionally, she is part of the 2023, 2024 and 2025 executive committee for the American Heart Association (AHA) Central Florida Heart Walk, serving as event chair in 2025, is a member of AHA’s Circle of Red and serves on the Board of Shepherd’s Hope.