Who serves as dean of medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro in House?

Lisa Cuddy serves as dean of medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro in House.

Cuddy, played by Lisa Edelstein, is the senior administrator who supervises House and manages the hospital's medical operations. Her responsibilities include balancing patient care, budgets, staffing, regulations, and the unusual demands created by House's diagnostic methods.

Cuddy and House have a complicated professional relationship. She recognizes his exceptional diagnostic ability but frequently has to discipline, restrict, or negotiate with him because of his disregard for rules. Their arguments are a major part of the show's hospital-based conflict.

Cuddy is a physician with an endocrinology background, but her principal role in the series is administrative. Viewers may confuse her with members of House's diagnostic teams, yet she is not one of the rotating fellows who usually work directly under him.