House’s colleague Lisa has the surname Cuddy in House M.D.; she is Dr. Lisa Cuddy, played by Lisa Edelstein.
Cuddy is the Dean of Medicine and hospital administrator at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Her responsibilities include managing staff, budgets, legal risks, and patient-care policy, which regularly puts her in conflict with House’s disregard for rules.
Although she often disciplines or limits House, Cuddy also recognizes his diagnostic value and protects the hospital’s ability to use his unconventional methods. Their professional tension develops into a complicated personal relationship during the series.
Lisa Edelstein left the regular cast after the seventh season, and Cuddy does not appear in the eighth-season episodes. Names such as Cameron and Masters belong to other members of House’s diagnostic teams, while Hadley is the surname of Thirteen.