With more than 1,500 Chiari decompressions under his belt, he has the largest personal surgical case series in the world. About 10 years ago, he founded the Department of Syringomyelia at the Hospital of the Police Armed Forces in Bejing, China. The Department was inspired by and modeled after the Chiari Institute and counted five Neurosurgeons and a Clinical Researcher. Two years ago, Dr. Liu left the Army and moved to a different hospital to start another CMI/SM focused Department: the Department of Syringomyelia, at Tsinghua University Yuquan Hospital, with a staff of five Neurosurgeons.