Houston Chronicle, June 15, 2008 Dr. William Mileski, senior chief of trauma care at UTMB, is quoted in this article about the use of helicopters in medical emergencies. UTMB studied transport times and patient survivability rates before and after it disbanded its medical helicopter fleet in 1997. Discontinuing the service did not increase transport times or increase patients' mortality rates, the hospital reported in a 2002 Journal of Trauma article. "In fact, transport times went down slightly," said Mileski, a co-author. "Discontinuation had no negative effect as far as we could determine."