Queens University of Charlotte will use a $7 million gift to launch a new college of health.

The Andrew Blair College of Health will be named after one of Charlotte’s most prominent physicians of the 1930s and 1940s, the university announced Friday.

The new college will include the university’s Presbyterian School of Nursing and proposed programs in public health, nutrition, gerontology, health informatics and health science or health management.

University officials said they also are considering degrees in health communication, health services and health care leadership.

The new school will be launched with a $7 million gift from Mr. and Mrs. A. Richard Blair of Pawley’s Island, S.C., in memory of his father, Dr. Andrew Blair.

Dr. Blair, a native of Pennsylvania, was a graduate of Dickinson College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, which he attended with help from four older sisters. He moved to Charlotte at the invitation of his uncle, Andrew Holmes Blair, a civil engineer who laid out the Myers Park and Dilworth neighborhoods.

As Dr. Blair built his practice as an internist, he became one of Charlotte’s busiest and most respected physicians, university officials said in a statement.
 

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