Facilitates efforts of various departments, managers and outside constituencies to ensure interdisciplinary collaboration, with particular focus on the UCSF Office of Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs, UCSF Office of the Registrar, UCSF Academic Senate, eight other UCSF PhD graduate programs, the Gladstone Institutes, Weill Institute, and Kavli Institute. This includes managing program's core courses, advanced elective courses, minicourses, Research-In-Progress talks, formal seminars, thesis seminars, fellowship writing workshops, and teaching assistant assignments for approximately 120 students per year.