Eric Foreman is the surname of House’s original team member Eric in House M.D.
Dr. Eric Foreman is a neurologist who joins House’s diagnostic team at Princeton-Plainsboro. Omar Epps portrayed him throughout the series. Foreman is intelligent, skeptical, and often more willing than his colleagues to challenge House’s reasoning, although he also learns to use House’s unconventional diagnostic methods.
Foreman belongs to the original trio of fellows alongside Robert Chase and Allison Cameron. Viewers sometimes confuse the character’s specialty with House’s own diagnostic role: Foreman is specifically a neurologist, while House directs the diagnostic department. Foreman later takes on senior administrative and medical positions, including becoming dean of medicine.