I was very excited when Dr. Levesque announced his original success. So, since I live in the area, I made an appointment and went to see him. Here are my personal impressions and should be viewed on a "for what it's worth" basis. I saw him at a very small office (one doctor, one receptionist) in west Los Angeles. First of all, he did not appear to be a movement disorder specialist. His specialty seemed to be back surgery. I also found a followup to his success story which indicated that surgery was performed on only one guy and although the result was encouraging at first, the positive result lasted a couple of years and the symptoms then came back. . Dr. Levesque told me that he was in the process of putting together a facility to process the stem cells. That was at least 5 years ago... sorry my memory is not so good for dates so I can't be more specific. I did ask him what size check I would need to write to have him do the procedure on me and that figure was quoted at around $150,000... a bit of trivia for the day.