What is the name of House’s hospital boss for much of House M.D.?

Lisa Cuddy is House’s hospital boss for much of House M.D.

Cuddy is the Dean of Medicine and hospital administrator at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. She supervises House, manages the institution’s competing medical and financial demands, and frequently challenges his rule-breaking methods.

Lisa Edelstein played Cuddy for the first seven seasons. The character’s relationship with House develops from professional conflict into a complicated personal relationship, but her administrative authority remains central to their interactions. Cuddy must balance House’s extraordinary diagnostic results against his disregard for hospital rules and professional boundaries.

Cuddy is sometimes confused with members of House’s diagnostic teams, including Cameron, Thirteen, and Masters. Those characters work as physicians or fellows under the hospital structure; Cuddy is the senior administrator who oversees House’s department. She leaves the series before the eighth season, which changes House’s workplace circumstances.