What was Lisa Cuddy’s senior hospital position in House M.D.?

Lisa Cuddy served as Dean of Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in House M.D.

Cuddy was the hospital’s senior medical administrator and had authority over departments, budgets, staffing, and difficult personnel decisions. She repeatedly had to balance the institution’s rules against House’s medical brilliance and his refusal to follow ordinary procedures.

The character is also a physician and an endocrinologist. Her medical training gives her enough clinical knowledge to understand House’s cases, while her administrative role makes her responsible for the hospital’s legal and financial risks. This combination explains why she can both support House and discipline him.

Cuddy was played by Lisa Edelstein. Her professional title is sometimes shortened in conversation to “hospital administrator,” but the canonical senior title associated with her role is Dean of Medicine. She led Princeton-Plainsboro for much of the series before leaving the hospital.