What is Dr. Lisa Cuddy's profession in House M.D.?

Dr. Lisa Cuddy is a hospital administrator in House M.D.

Cuddy serves as the Dean of Medicine and hospital administrator at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Her responsibilities include managing staff, budgets, legal risks, and institutional policy, while also supervising the difficult but valuable diagnostic department led by Gregory House.

The character is a physician, but her central role in the series is administrative rather than routine clinical practice. That distinction matters because Cuddy often acts as the person who must contain House's behavior, approve his unusual procedures, and defend the hospital's interests. Her professional authority creates an ongoing conflict with House's disregard for rules.

Lisa Cuddy was played by Lisa Edelstein. She is not the hospital's chief of surgery or an emergency nurse, although her decisions affect many departments. Cuddy's leadership role also distinguishes her from Wilson, who is primarily depicted as an oncologist and close friend of House.