Who served as dean of medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro in House M.D.?

Lisa Cuddy served as dean of medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro in House M.D.

Played by Lisa Edelstein, Cuddy is the hospital’s senior administrator and one of the few people with enough authority to challenge House directly. Her responsibilities include managing the institution, supervising medical staff, and balancing patient care with hospital policy and finances.

Cuddy’s relationship with House is professionally tense and personally complicated. She recognizes his diagnostic value but frequently objects to his rule-breaking, unauthorized procedures, and disregard for administrative limits. Their conflicts form a recurring part of the series’ story.

Cuddy is distinct from House’s diagnostic colleagues. Allison Cameron is an immunologist, while Martha Masters is a medical student who joins the team later. The character is usually identified simply as Lisa Cuddy, although her position and relationship to House change over the course of the show.