launch POM-ACO, an accountable care organization under the Medicare Shared Savings Program. In 2014, the members of the UMHS faculty group practice joined POM-ACO. The ACO has more than 6,000 providers across Michigan. In 2017, POM-ACO saved the Medicare system $45.5 million and was the fourth-largest MSSP ACO in the nation as well as the largest in Michigan. In December 2016, the UMHS and Metro Health Hospital, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, launched an affiliation. Metro Health officially changed its name to the University of Michigan Health-West to mark its 15th-anniversary affiliation in 2021. Major projects in development Three major projects have been completed and opened for use, completed in late 2017 and 2018: A multispeciality health center in Brighton, Michigan (complementing existing services in the area) A multispecialty health center in west Ann Arbor, Michigan A clinical pathology project to move many clinical operations to the North Campus Research Complex Notable alumni and faculty John Jacob Abel – "father of pharmacology"; discovered epinephrine and crystallized insulin George K. Anderson – U.S. Air Force general Fred Baker – founder of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Robert Bartlett – One of inventors of Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) William Henry Beierwaltes – founder of MIBG scan and "father of nuclear medicine" Keith Black – neurosurgeon David Botstein – geneticist, first argued that the human genome could be mapped Edward Bove – congenital heart surgeon, first described hypoplastic left-heart syndrome Emma Eliza Bower (1852–1937) – physician, club-woman, and newspaper owner, publisher, editor Emma Louise Call – one of nation's first female physicians, and namesake of Call-Exner bodies Alexa Canady – the first African-American female neurosurgeon in the country Ben Carson – former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, first neurosurgeon to successfully separate conjoined twins Stanley Cohen – biochemist, received Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1986) for his discovery of the epidermal and nerve growth factors Francis Collins – director of the NIH Human Genome Project and discoverer of the most common mutation for cystic fibrosis Jerome Conn – first described primary hyperaldosteronism – Conn's Syndrome Elizabeth C. Crosby – neuroanatomist Ronald M. Davis – President of American Medical Association (AMA) Mary A. G. Dight – president of the Hempstead Academy of Medicine Thomas Francis – proved the efficacy of the first polio vaccine Sanjay Gupta – CNN chief medical correspondent, neurosurgeon Alice Hamilton – first woman appointed to the