Lubab Al-Quraishi

Lubab Al-Quraishi
Honorary Delegate (New Jersey)
Resettled Refugee from Iraq

Dr. Lubab Al-Quraishi is a Refugee Congress Honorary Delegate from New Jersey. She came to the U.S. as a refugee from Baghdad, Iraq, in 2014, along with her husband and two children.

Lubab has a medical degree with a speciality in surgical pathology and worked as a doctor and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Baghdad Medical College in Iraq. She has been working toward returning to her beloved profession as a medical doctor since arriving in the U.S., but the time and money required for licensing exams have made this a slow process.

After coming to the U.S., Lubab worked for several years as a cashier and at a bakery to support her family. Later, she found a position as a pharmacy tech and finally secured a position as a licensed pathologist assistant in a medical lab in New Jersey. During the pandemic, she has been volunteering on the front lines to do COVID testing. She received a temporary license to practice medicine and hopes to someday return to working as a doctor full-time.

In her free time, Lubab enjoys cooking and cake decorating.

“Refugees are a main component of American society, and we should have equal opportunity.”

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