Dr. Cuddy’s first name is Lisa in House, M.D. Lisa Cuddy, played by Lisa Edelstein, serves as dean of medicine and hospital administrator at Princeton-Plainsboro for much of the series.
Cuddy supervises House and tries to balance his extraordinary diagnostic results against his rule-breaking, staff conflicts, and disregard for hospital policy. Their professional relationship drives many scenes because Cuddy must manage both the institution and the doctor whose methods continually create risk.
Cuddy is an endocrinologist by specialty. Her position is sometimes described simply as hospital administrator, but the character’s full professional identity includes medical training and leadership within the teaching hospital. Lisa Edelstein played Cuddy through season seven; the character does not appear as a regular in the eighth and final season.