In House M.D., Eric Foreman is the first of House's original diagnostic-team fellows to become a department leader.
Omar Epps plays Foreman, a neurologist who joins House's initial team alongside Robert Chase and Allison Cameron. Foreman is ambitious, skeptical, and often more willing than his colleagues to challenge House directly.
Foreman eventually becomes Dean of Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro, a senior leadership position that places him above the diagnostic department and changes his relationship with House. His professional rise is a major long-term thread in the series.
Foreman is sometimes confused with later team members such as Chris Taub or Remy Hadley. Those doctors join after the original team, while Foreman belongs to the first group introduced in the series and remains a central character throughout its run.