1. < Message from the Chair

Our department is remarkable. In reflecting on our strategic goals to Lead in Innovation, Transform Care and Advance Health for All, I am focusing this week’s post on the impact that the UCLA Department of Medicine’s (DoM) global reach has on medical education, workforce development and the improvement of human health worldwide. I have shared examples in the past of research collaborations that our faculty have established that have transformed health care delivery across the planet. This week, I invite you to take a deeper dive that illustrates the depth and breadth of our department’s global health engagements.

Atousa Jahanshahi, MD Awarded Grant to Launch Nutrition Education Partnership Between UCLA DoM and Health Students in Jamaica

This update is close to my heart, as it entails the creation of a formal education partnership between the UCLA DoM and my alma mater, the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona. I am thrilled to share that Atousa Jahanshahi, MD, a nephrology fellow, has received a grant from the UCLA Global Advisors Council to conduct a project titled “Bridging Cultural Nutrition Gaps in Chronic Kidney Disease: A US–Jamaica Curriculum Initiative.” The initiative is a collaboration between UCLA, UWI Mona, and the Jamaica Ministry of Health and Wellness to bring culturally-competent education on nutrition, chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM) health. The course will connect UCLA medical, graduate and advanced undergraduate students in health-related fields with medical trainees at UWI Mona and nephrology nursing learners through the Jamaica Ministry of Health and Wellness, creating opportunities for shared learning across different cultural and healthcare settings.

“Learners will examine how patients with similar kidney disease risk factors may experience very different outcomes depending on their cultural, nutritional and healthcare environments,” Dr. Jahanshahi said. The curriculum will culminate in a collaborative international project where UCLA and Jamaican learners work together to develop a culturally tailored CKD nutrition intervention that considers local foods, cultural dietary practices, cost, healthcare resources and feasibility; it will be presented to a joint faculty panel.

“Our goal is not simply to teach learners about kidney care in another country,” Dr. Jahanshahi said. “We want them to develop the ability to adapt their clinical reasoning and recommendations to the communities and patients they serve.”

Dr. Jahanshahi came up with the idea for this project after an experience working with the people of another country in the region, Dominica. After seeing the UCLA Global Advisors Council’s call for project proposals, she reached out to Dr. Nicholas to see what she thought about establishing a medical education program in Jamaica. Dr. Nicholas has an expansive professional network in Jamaica through her role as an executive councilor and former president of Women in Nephrology (WIN), of which she initiated the creation of a Caribbean chapter in 2022. (She is a member of the WIN-Caribbean chapter owing to her own Caribbean roots.) She was eager to introduce Dr. Jahanshahi to her connections there.

Dr. Jahanshahi said that she was deeply grateful to Dr. Nicholas for her help and ongoing mentorship. She also thanked Racquel Lowe-Jones, MBBS, DM, a consultant nephrologist and clinical educator with the Jamaica Ministry of Health and Wellness, who brings expertise in nephrology nursing education, workforce development and kidney care delivery in Jamaica; Lori-Ann Fisher, MBBS, DM, an academic nephrologist and medical educator at UWI Mona, who provides clinical and educational expertise and helps ensure that Jamaican perspectives are integrated throughout the curriculum; and Dean Beezer, director of international talent acquisition and coordination at the Jamaica Ministry of Health and Wellness, whose institutional support helps align the initiative with Jamaica’s healthcare and educational priorities. They offered perspectives on nursing education, kidney care and medical education in Jamaica as well as enthusiastic support of her idea.

“This experience has shown me firsthand what strong mentorship and genuine international collaboration can accomplish,” Dr. Jahanshahi said. “I am excited not only to see the curriculum come to life, but also to continue learning from this team and to see how this initiative can grow into a sustainable collaboration with an impact beyond its first year.”

Congratulations, Atousa!

UCLA Collaborates on New ICU Certification and Procedure Programs at Malawi Partner Hospital 

Our partnership with the Partners In Hope (PIH) Medical Center in Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi, is a fountain of bidirectional learning that has dramatically expanded the skillsets and perspectives of hundreds of medical students, trainees, fellows and faculty over the past 20 years. I am pleased to share that PIH has expanded its clinical capacities with a new intensive care unit (ICU), and that our fellows and faculty in the UCLA Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine are collaborating closely with our colleagues there to set up a procedural program for complex lung conditions and to train healthcare providers in life support.

Dr. Ronaghi noted that UCLA’s leadership in advancing interventional pulmonology (IP) care globally stems starts with our exceptional IP program here in L.A.

“The UCLA IP program is one of the top 5 or 10 largest in the country, and when it comes to pleural disease, we are the number one pleural disease program in the country by a factor of two or three — the number of advanced procedures we do in the pleural space probably outnumbers any other institution,” Dr. Ronaghi said. “We have the ability to teach what we’ve been able to learn here at UCLA over the past 10 or so years to our colleagues at PIH, and the goal is to develop a sustainable program that can serve this undertreated population.”

Since then, 22 of the 40 hospital staff — mainly physicians and nurses — have become BLS- and ACLS-certified. Dr. Fiore will return in October or November to train the remaining team, then will launch a curriculum to teach airway management procedures. She and a team of colleagues are also working on ICU protocols to handle drownings, asthma attacks and other emergencies.

Dr. Fiore is grateful that the DoM and UCLA more broadly have been so supportive of her initiative. The grant she received was funded internally — an essential lifeline at a time when the national funding environment is relatively precarious. She also noted that she has received extensive mentorship from faculty, who have also supported her scheduling requirements so she can go abroad.

“At other institutions, getting the support I need for an initiative like this one would be an uphill battle,” she said. “UCLA wants to make this work.”

Rising Pulmonology Star Jesse Edward Ross, MD Exemplifies Our Global Health Mission

I would now like to shine the spotlight on Jesse Edward Ross, MD, MS, a rising star in pulmonology and critical care whose decision to pursue a career in international medical research was reinforced by his experiences as a trainee in the global health track of the UCLA Internal Medicine Residency Program. Today he splits his time between serving as faculty in the UCLA Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care and studying sepsis in Uganda — a part of the world that suffers from the highest incidence of and mortality from sepsis but where less than 1% of all sepsis research has taken place. He currently holds a Burroughs Wellcome Fund/ASTMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tropical Infectious Diseases and has applied for an NIH K23 to further support this work. He is also a founding board member of The Center for Health Action Research and Training in Africa (Chart-A), a nonprofit organization that supports Africa-led medical research, training and patient care.

Dr. Ross did not always envision himself having an international career, but his fascination for other cultures and passion for helping people was apparent from an early age. He recalled scrolling through an Encyclopedia Britannica CD to look at faraway places and catalog the ones he hoped to visit someday from a computer at his childhood home in coastal Alabama, where his family also volunteered with a faith-based group to conduct disaster relief efforts after hurricanes came through.

“Rather than just conduct research at a distance, our goal is to directly support clinical care on a day-to-day basis,” Dr. Ross said. He finds that aspect of his work to be especially rewarding.

“We get to see in real time how this work strengthens clinical care by supporting ongoing education, expanding access to diagnostics and treatments, providing equipment and clinical support, and building local capacity,” he explained. Moreover, his team’s multi-omics approach is, in many cases, the first of its kind — and it’s being done far beyond the well-resourced metropolitan urban centers that come to mind when one thinks of groundbreaking scientific research.

“Instead of taking place in New York or Los Angeles, it’s taking place at Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital in Entebbe, Uganda, or Tororo General Hospital, a more rural hospital in Uganda,” he said. “It’s exciting to see that you can do this kind of work in low-resource, high-burden settings. I think people often wonder if you can do this research in this environment, and while it comes with its own set of challenges, I think our group and many others have shown that it’s possible, and that’s exciting.”

Dr. Ross expressed gratitude towards the many mentors and peers in the DoM who have helped him along his career path — including the support of Pulmonary and Critical Care Division Chief John A. Belperio, MD, Global Health Pathway Faculty including Rachel P. Brook, MD and Director Christopher N. Tymchuk, MD, PhD, former UCLA Global Health Program Director Risa M. Hoffman, MD — as well as many others at DGSOM. He feels that the DoM’s continued support of global health efforts in spite of national funding challenges demonstrates our commitment to advancing health care for all, and highlighted the success of several of his peers who are early-career physician-scientists thriving within UCLA’s global health community — including Marguerite Thorp MD, MPA/ID, Seth David Judson, MD, MHS, Catie Cambou, MD, PhD, Paul C. Adamson, MD, MPH and others — as a testament to that.

"UCLA is really an incredible place to be as a young physician-scientist interested in global health,” he said.

Peru-UCLA Global Health Partnership Expands

The UCLA Global Health Program’s partnership with the Regional Hospital of Loreto in Iquitos, Peru has educated many trainees on caring for patients with tropical diseases, and it is expanding in exciting ways. Last year the program held its inaugural Tropical Medicine Case Conference, an initiative in which trainees from Iquitos and UCLA gather to discuss cases, compare context-specific diagnostic and management approaches and take part in reciprocal English- and Spanish-language exchange. Courtney DeCan, MD, MPH, launched the initiative with our Peruvian colleagues Edgar Ramirez, MD and Manuel Rojas, MD during their visit to UCLA in 2025. Throughout the past year, current UCLA resident Kathleen Phoebe Hung, MD, and recently-graduated residents Jonathan Rizner, MD and Alaní Estrella, MD led case exchanges on a quarterly basis that have grown to include an audience of nearly 100 participants from across the U.S., South America and Europe.

"Dr. DeCan and Dr. Ramirez were the masterminds behind the case conference, and all of us trainees really benefited from the exchange,” Dr. Estrella said. “Often in global health we see short term — and often unilateral — exchanges where trainees see diseases we aren’t accustomed to and then go home without further involvement. The case exchange was a way for us to stay involved and make the relationship more bilateral."

He added that it was rewarding to help build the initiative from the ground up and watch it grow with each round. It was especially meaningful to see that other people were motivated to learn and use Spanish during discussions.

“Although we use medical Spanish in the U.S., using Spanish to explain the science behind diseases and engage in critical discussion is not a skill we practice,” Dr. Estrella said. “Having Spanish-speaking experts in infectious disease and other fields really was helpful to improve my ability to explain complicated ideas at a variety of levels. I’m really grateful that I got to be a part of these experiences, and that the exchange has outlived our time in the residency program.”

I am also proud to share that the UCLA Global Health Program and the UCLA Center for Continuing Professional Development will facilitate the advancement of the LAPAHS Course in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases by supporting the expansion of its accreditation to offer continuing medical education credits. The course was established at Hospital Regional de Loreto by Dr. Ramirez and his colleagues in 2022 in memory of Dr. Luis Alberto Panduro and Dr. Antony Hans Silva, whose initials LAP and AHS, respectively, form the acronym LAPAHS. Conducted in association with the Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, the course is unique for offering practical medical education on tropical medicine to an international audience entirely in Spanish in an area where tropical infectious diseases are endemic. The course elevates the expertise of local clinician educators and offers an alternative to the typical unidirectional models of global health education.

To Paul M. Janoian III, MD, a Global Health Pathway faculty member, the LAPAHS collaboration is a way to offer physicians around the world exposure to tropical diseases and pathology that they may not otherwise get through their medical training. More than 320 students and healthcare professionals have gone through LAPAHS so far, and its accreditation will strengthen the course by enhancing its academic rigor, expanding laboratory capacity and adding new clinical training opportunities while also fostering faculty participation from the U.S. and Spain to complement local and regional expertise.

Dr. DeCan, faculty lead for the course, said Dr. Janoian’s experience is a good example of why UCLA wants to support LAPAHS.

“Let’s say you have primary care or urgent care providers who go down to Iquitos for two weeks. In two weeks, you might treat patients with dengue, leptospirosis, malaria and severe tuberculosis,” she said. “When you come back and encounter patients with these diseases, whether they are returning travelers or have contracted it from local spread, like dengue in Los Angeles, you’re going to have more confidence and clinical competency. There’s a lot we can learn from seeing cases in real life and learning from the experts who see them on a daily basis.”

Our partnership with LAPAHS is a good reminder that in order to effectively carry out our mission to Advance Health for All, we must be just as eager to learn from others as we are to teach them. I am grateful to Courtney and Paul for their efforts to bring this program’s outstanding education to others, and to our partners in Peru for being so willing to share their knowledge with us through LAPAHS, our rotation at the Regional Hospital of Loreto and the Tropical Medicine Case Conference.

Thai Global Health Partners Teach and Learn with the DoM

Our next stop on our journey around the world is in Bangkok, Thailand, where UCLA medical students and trainees for more than a decade have taken part in two-week rotations at Siriraj Hospital or Thammasat University Hospital Chulabhorn International College of Medicine (CICM). These programs expose learners to Thai traditional medicine and subspeciality care in differently-resourced settings, affording them new perspectives that they can apply to their work back home or wherever they choose to build their careers.

This effort has also led to a new opportunity for cross-cultural exchange. While rotating at Siriraj Hospital a few years ago as an infectious diseases (ID) fellow, Transplant ID physician Lauren K. Yanagimoto-Ogawa, DO, MSPH met some Thai trainees who were interested in learning more about her specialty. Building on an existing partnership between UCLA and Siriraj Hospital that was established by Christopher N. Tymchuk, MD, PhD, director of our global health programs in Thailand at UCLA, and Pornpan Koomanachai, MD, assistant dean of international relations at Siriraj, Joanna M. Schaenman, MD, PhD orchestrated the pilot launch of the Siriraj-UCLA Transplant ID Fellowship Program last year, during which two fellows from Thailand spend six months at UCLA shadowing our transplant ID experts and working on research projects, then returned to Siriraj Hospital to complete their fellowships. The inaugural fellows in the program, Kamonlawat Sutthipool, MD and Sorawit Chittrakarn, MD, graduated in June.

“It was a pilot program, but I think everyone felt that it was quite successful,” Dr. Schaenman, who also serves as director of the UCLA Advanced Training Program in Transplant ID, said. Dr. Sutthipool and Dr. Chittrakarn rotated through all four transplant ID services at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center — heart and lung, liver, kidney and bone marrow transplant — and took part in outpatient care opportunities and also spent some time with the general ID service. In addition, they spent a week in the microbiology lab, and when they were not on service, they worked on research projects overseen by Dr. Yanagimoto-Ogawa, Dr. Schaenman and their Thai mentors.

“The Siriraj-UCLA Transplant Infectious Diseases Fellowship has been one of the most meaningful experiences in my training. It gave me the opportunity to learn from incredible mentors, work alongside experts in the field and care for a wide range of complex transplant patients,” Dr. Chittrakarn said. “Beyond the clinical experience, the fellowship broadened my perspective on teamwork, research and academic medicine. It also connected me with inspiring colleagues and mentors who continue to influence the way I approach patient care. I'm truly grateful to have been part of this program.”

Dr. Chittrakarn added that he is excited to put what he has learned to help care for transplant patients and train future physicians. He said he will carry the knowledge, skills and relationships he gained through the fellowship throughout his career. I am pleased to share that one stop on his path will be a new role as the head of infectious diseases at his home institution, Songklanagarind Hospital.

Dr. Sutthipool felt that the fellowship was a transformative experience for her, both personally and professionally. She appreciated being exposed to the care of highly complex transplant recipients in a multidisciplinary environment, which she credited with deepening her clinical knowledge in Transplant ID. She was also grateful for the chance to see how a leading transplant program functions and for the opportunity to broaden her knowledge of general infectious diseases and clinical microbiology while participating in clinical research, engaging in a wide range of academic activities and attending major conferences.

“Beyond the clinical training, I felt genuinely welcomed by the faculty and staff, who were always willing to teach, provide guidance and support me throughout my fellowship,” she said. “Their generosity, mentorship and friendships made the experience especially rewarding.”

Dr. Sutthipool added that she looks forward to applying what she has learned to the care of transplant patients and the training of future infectious disease physicians in Thailand.

For Dr. Yanagimoto-Ogawa, our partnerships in Bangkok are special because faculty and fellows there have such strong interest in global health and are so willing to both learn and to teach. She rotated at Siriraj Hospital towards the end of her Transplant ID fellowship — the perfect time to share her newfound knowledge while absorbing even more from the attendings and other trainees at Siriraj.

“I’ve always felt like global health is a two-way street. I learned so much from everyone I interacted with,” she said. “It was a wonderful opportunity to get to share what I had learned that past year at UCLA, but I also felt like they taught me so much while I was there simply because of the differences between our medical systems and the availability of antibiotics that we don’t even have access to here in the United States, and vice versa.”

She added that Dr. Sutthipool and Dr. Chittrakarn were outstanding first fellows for the Siriraj-UCLA Transplant ID Fellowship Program. They are in the process of publishing manuscripts on the research they conducted during their time as fellows.

“They set the bar very high, in my opinion, for any future fellows who may go through this program too,” she said. “We're excited to see the outcomes of all of these projects.”

A Q&A with Dr. PK, Global Health Partner and Leader

One of the many joys of working in global health is making lifelong friends and colleagues who open doors to new intellectual homes all over the world. For many of us here at UCLA, one such example is Pornpan Koomanachai, MD — better known as Dr. PK — who serves as assistant dean of international relations and faculty of medicine in the division of infectious diseases and tropical medicine at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok as well as on the executive committee of the Infectious Diseases Association of Thailand. Dr. PK was foundational to the establishment of our partnership with Siriraj and is a force in global health education.

Last month, during her fifth visit to UCLA, she graciously took time from her busy schedule to share some thoughts on medical education, international partnerships and her own passion for infectious diseases in this special Q&A. It has been edited for brevity. Enjoy!

Welcome back to UCLA! What has your experience been like this time around?

Every time that I have been to UCLA I feel like this is my second home, because I keep in touch with the doctors and professors who have worked with us at Siriraj Hospital all the time. At the same time, during each visit I also meet more people and experience new things. There are also always more meetings to discuss and more new projects for my institute. It is very exciting.

Tell me a little bit about what was new during this visit from your previous ones.

This time around I met with individuals from the UCLA DGSOM Global Health Program to discuss how to give feedback and reflection to medical students. This was very helpful because they all have so much experience. I also had the opportunity to meet with UCLA DGSOM Global Health Program Director Sadath Sayeed, MD, JD, who is very energetic and had many ideas about how to work through problems with students. I had the chance to witness him talk with a medical student and I was very impressed with his demeanor and ability to deliver straightforward feedback to help the student improve. At my university, I teach educators how to give feedback and reflection, so this was very helpful for me. During this visit I also met with leaders to discuss potential collaboration between other hospitals in Thailand and the UCLA Division of Infectious Diseases, which I can facilitate through my role on the executive committee of the Infectious Diseases Association of Thailand.

What is special about UCLA that made you feel we would be a good medical education partner for Siriraj Hospital?

Before the partnership was established, I visited UCLA and met the medical educators here. I sensed that we are very similar in our philosophies of education, how to treat patients and how to train student, residents and fellows. From what I observed, medical education at UCLA was in the top 10 programs in the world. Then, when Christopher Tymchuk, MD came to our hospital, he didn't just see the patient — he discussed the patient’s condition with my resident and fellow and encouraged them to speak as well.

What I treasure the most from what I have experienced through our partnership with UCLA is the people. They are not only leaders in their fields, but they are generous, sincere and have shown genuine care towards me and anyone who comes to visit.

Overall, I wanted Siriraj to partner with UCLA because of the extraordinary people and culture here. Although the United States and Thailand are geographically very far apart, we create our own culture through our work together.

What motivated you personally to work in global health education?

When I was very young, I did not even know that I could go to the United States to study — I just studied and studied and studied anyway! My personality is such that I like to learn from someone else about different cultures. When I travel around the world, I'm not going to like the tourist thing — I like to walk to the market, to find out why common phrases are said the way they are, to know what different people are thinking. For example, if a building is very nice, looks very comfortable or very clean, I just want to know why the culture makes it like that, so I can adopt the culture to improve my institute, myself or my students. Also, many of my students in Thailand would like to come here to study infectious diseases, so that motivates me to use my natural interests to do more to improve our institute’s international relations. As a result, we have very strong collaborations with UCLA as well as with institutes in Japan and Ireland.

If you were to talk to a student or trainee who has not chosen a specialty yet, why would you tell them that global health and infectious diseases is a good one to choose? Who is a good candidate or good personality for this field?

I think those would love infectious disease or global health are those who love to explore — they want to explore every patient, explore every disease and also explore the endemic area and epidemiology to get to know the disease that the patient is facing. This is the first quality. The second one is someone who wants to see the patient as a whole, from head to toe — you cannot see just the heart, you cannot see just the lung, you have to think about how this patient can be affected throughout their body. Third is someone thrives in field that is constantly changing alongside the world. If you are an infectious disease physician, you have to study new global threats all the time — hantavirus comes, COVID comes, Ebola comes. How can you protect the patient, the citizens in your country and also citizens from another country? I think these three components are good qualities to have in residents who want to study infectious diseases. I would tell someone who is making the decision to study infectious disease that this career opens your eyes, makes you more global and makes you more skilled at communication.

What are you most excited about for the future of the partnership between UCLA and Siriraj Hospital?

I'm most excited about transforming our collaboration into a long-term strategic partnership. I hope to see more exchanges of students and faculty, joint research and innovative educational programs. Together, UCLA and Siriraj can learn from each other, develop future healthcare leaders and create a meaningful impact on patient care and global health. I believe this is just the beginning of a very promising journey together.

More Fellowship Graduates to Cheer On 

As an update to our graduation series, there are some additional commencements to celebrate. Here are two more.

Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

The UCLA Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) Fellowship Program celebrated the commencement of nine graduates on June 5. They also recognized the outstanding efforts of two educators, Kevin J. Eng, MD and Richard L. Watson, MD, PhD with PCCM Faculty Educator of the Year Awards.

Here is where the grads are off to next:

• Nitin Agrawal, MD will join the University of Texas, Southwestern.
• Catherine Durant, MD will join Kaiser Permanente in Downey. 
• Anna Fretz, MD will join the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center and UCLA Santa Clarita Primary & Specialty Care.
• Patrick Holman, MD will join the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West L.A. 
• Cher Huang, MD will continue training as a physician-scientist through the UCLA Specialty Training and Advanced Research (STAR) research fellow. She will concurrently become a fellow in sleep medicine through the PCCM fellowship program’s Airway & Exercise Physiology/Sleep Medicine (AIRE) track.
• Hollyann Loui, MD will join UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center.
• Brandon Peplinski, MD, MPH will also continue his physician-scientist training as a UCLA STAR research fellow.
• Monroe Wolf, MD will join Dignity Health’s California hospital.
• Caitlin Yumori, MD will join UCLA Health in the South Bay.

Sleep Medicine

Here is where the sleep fellows are going:

• Dr. Lau will join a private practice in Santa Clarita in Pulmonary and will continue to work on his many quality improvement projects with Kaiser Permanente Sunset. 
• Dr. Al-Tameemi will re-join her family back at home in Seattle.
• Dr. Chang will return to Cedars-Sinai.
• Dr. Ramirez will join a private practice in Orlando, where she will enjoy the proximity to her mother and sister in Trinidad and Tobago.
• Dr. Tran has taken a sleep medicine role at Hoag in Newport Beach.

See where fellows in other programs are headed here. Congratulations, everyone!

Welcome New DoM Fellows

As we wish our graduating fellows continued success in the next stages of their careers, we are also delighted that a new cohort of fellows has joined the DoM community. We are proud to welcome this exceptional group of trainees and remain committed to supporting their success from the very beginning of their fellowship journey.

To foster early connections and introduce some of the resources available within our department for fellowship trainees, we hosted an inaugural UCLA Department of Medicine Fellowship Welcome Event. Fellows and division leaders gathered at the David Geffen School of Medicine to learn more about the clinical, educational, and research landscape across the DoM and UCLA Health.

I was pleased to see strong participation from DoM faculty and staff, who were eager to meet and welcome our newest colleagues. While we recognize that not all fellows were able to attend, we look forward to hosting similar events in the future and providing additional opportunities for engagement and connection.

In the meantime, we encourage all new and current fellows to explore several of the valuable resources highlighted during the event:

We look forward to supporting our fellows as they embark on this exciting new chapter and contribute to the continued excellence of the DoM.

Dale

P.S.

Last week, I made a cryptic comment in our coverage of Dr. Greg Brent’s birthday regarding the number 12. I understand that it has triggered intense conversation and speculation regarding its meaning and link to Dr. Brent. So, this is turning out to be a riddle — for which there is a solution. Before I reveal the answer, I think that more work needs to be done, so here is the next clue.

This historic landmark was featured as part of the set of a famous movie, which could hold a clue. Which site did I visit, and what movie was this?

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