Thomas F. Minahan DO

Dr. Thomas F. Minahan gives his 11-year-old daughter Mallory medical marijuana to treat her pediatric epilepsy. Faced with the difficult decision of giving her relatively harmless cannabis oil or a prescription drug that could potentially take her life, Dr. Minahan and his wife Carrin decided to challenge their conservative beliefs and give medical marijuana a try. “For us, this isn’t a choice, it’s something we have to do,” said Dr. Minahan. “The results have been amazing.”

Director of Emergency Medicine and attending Physician at one of the busiest trauma centers in Southern California. Dr. Minahan is Board certified in Emergency Medicine and has been practicing for over 15 years. He knows firsthand the devastating effects of epilepsy as he has watched Mallory suffer from intractable (unsuccessfully treated) seizures since the age of fourteen months. “It breaks your heart as a parent, seeing your child suffer,” he says. As a physician, Dr. Minahan has watched in helpless frustration as varying treatments, specialty diets and prescription drugs have at first offered hope, only to end up failing in the end.