What is Dr. Lisa Cuddy’s administrative position in House M.D.?

Dr. Lisa Cuddy is the Dean of Medicine in House M.D. She is also the administrator who oversees Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital and repeatedly manages House’s conduct and medical decisions.

Cuddy is played by Lisa Edelstein. Her position gives her authority over budgets, staffing, hospital policy, and the diagnostic department, although House frequently challenges her rules. Their arguments combine professional conflict with a long-running personal tension that becomes a major part of the series.

Cuddy is a physician with an endocrinology background, but her principal role in the hospital is administrative rather than clinical. That distinction causes occasional confusion: she is not simply House’s department chief or a surgeon supervising the hospital. The title “Dean of Medicine” identifies her senior leadership position at the fictional teaching hospital. Cuddy leaves the series before the final season, while the hospital continues under different leadership.