Lisa Cuddy is House's hospital administrator and former boss in House M.D.
Dr. Lisa Cuddy, played by Lisa Edelstein, is the dean of medicine and hospital administrator at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. She oversees House's department and frequently has to balance his extraordinary diagnostic results against his rule-breaking, drug use, and disregard for hospital policy.
Cuddy's professional relationship with House is complicated by their long history and romantic tension. She often protects his medical work while imposing limits on his behavior, creating a recurring conflict between institutional responsibility and the value of House's unusual methods.
Cuddy should not be confused with Cameron, who is a member of House's diagnostic team, or Stacy Warner, who is House's former partner and a hospital lawyer. Martha Masters is a later diagnostic fellow. Cuddy's defining institutional role is administrator and dean of medicine.