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- [S104] Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, Cocke County Heritage Book Committee, (Walsworth Publishing, 1992), 235.
- [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 18 Jul 2007.
Shults honored posthumously by Education Foundation
Photo by Duay O'Neil Dr. Cliff W. Shults was honored posthumously by the Cocke County Education Foundation on Saturday during a service in his memory at First Baptist Church. Shults died in February of cancer. He was named the Foundation's fourth recipient of its "Celebrating Our Success" award. From left are Dr. Rich Lloyd, church pastor and Foundation president, Andrew and Sarah Shults, the recipient's children; Ellen Shults, his wife; Love Shults, his mother, Odette Shults, his sister-in-law, and Thomas Glen Shults, his nephew. In back, from left, are Bill and Glen C. Shults, his brothers, and Linda Shults, his sister-in-law.
By: Duay O'Neil
Source: The Newport Plain Talk
07-18-2007
NEWPORT - Newport native Dr. Cliff W. Shults became the fourth recipient of the Cocke County Education Foundation's "Celebrate Our Success" award posthumously on Saturday. Shults' honor was announced by Dr. Rich Lloyd at the beginning of a memorial service held at First Baptist Church. Approximately 200 family members and friends attended. In presenting the award to Shults' widow, Ellen Koutsky Shults, and children Andrew and Sarah, Lloyd said, "I regret that my own children will only know about our honoree through stories and not through actual contact with him." Members of the Cocke County Education Foundation normally present the award every other year, but broke tradition this year to name Shults as an honoree. The award honors someone who has been educated in local schools and who has then distinguished himself/herself in a particular field. "Dr. Shults was internationally known for his medical research," said Lloyd. Other recipients of the honor are Retired Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Porter, Dr. Kenneth Olden, and Rev. Benny Proffitt. Born in Newport on October 27, 1950, Shults was the second of three sons of Love (Gray) Shults and the late Dr. Glen C. Shults. He died February 7, 2007, of complications from cancer. After finishing his elementary education at Newport Grammar School, he entered McCallie School in Chattanooga and later Brown University. His medical training actually began at Valentine-Shults Hospital, operated by his father and the late Dr. Fred M. Valentine, Sr., where he worked as a janitor. Many years later he entered University of Tennessee's College of Medicine in Memphis where he developed an interest in neurology. He completed his medical residency at the University of California San Francisco and later his neurology residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Then he joined the University of California San Diego as a staff neurologist at their Veterans Administration Medical Center. For nine years he served as Chief of Neurology Services at UCSD. "Cliff's research remains ongoing," said David D. Song, MD PhD, co-director of UCSD's Parkinson's Disease Research Center, upon Shults' death. "His groundbreaking approaches to the study of Parkinson's disease gave thousands of people hope." In addition to Lloyd, those speaking at Saturday's service included his brothers Bill and Glen C. Shults and his friend, Dr. Jim Cole Overholt. Music for the service was provided by Donna Balch, pianist; Joan Lambert, organist; and the Bill Scarlett Trio.
- [S24] The Newport Plain Talk, (http://www.newportplaintalk.com), 14 Feb 2007.
Dr. Cliff Shults, 56, internationally known medical researcher, dies in California
NEWPORT-A Newport native, whose medical research helped to slow the advancement of Parkinson's disease, died Tuesday, Feb. 6, at his home in La Jolla, Calif., from complications of cancer. Shults' death came after a nearly four-year struggle with the disease. He was first diagnosed in June 2003. In spite of his own physical problems, Shults continued to work and remain active up until his death. Clifford Walter Shults was born in Newport on Oct. 27, 1950, second of three sons of Dr. Glen C. Shults and his wife, the former Love Gray. Named for his uncles, Walter C. Shults and Clifton V. Overton, he grew up in Cocke County, where he attended Newport Grammar School. Later he entered McCallie School in Chattanooga. He was the grandson of the late Jacob "Jakie" Shults, well-known teacher in the Cosby community and writer of a popular column in the Newport Plain Talk for many years, and his wife, the former Algia McMahan, and of the late Samuel Hooper Gray, prominent farmer in the Fourth District and early agricultural leader in Cocke County, and his wife, the former Adelia Raines. Following Shults' graduation from Brown University, he entered medical school at the University of Tennessee in Memphis, where he first developed an interest in neurology. He later completed an internship and a medical residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and a neurology residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, where he was chief resident. After serving as a staff fellow at the National Institutes for Health in Washington, DC, Dr. Shults joined the University of California, San Diego as a staff neurologist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center. For nine years he was chief of the Neurology Service. For the remainder of his career, Dr. Shults remained at UCSD, where his predominant interest was the study of Parkinson's disease. He developed a protocol using coenzyme Q10 to slow the symptoms of patients with early Parkinson's disease. His research in this area remains ongoing. "Dr. Shults always conducted his research with the utmost scientific integrity," said David D. Song, MD, PhD, co-director of UCSD's Parkinson's Disease Research Center. "His groundbreaking approaches to the study of Parkinson's disease gave thousands of patients hope. He was extremely hardworking, but always generous with his time to me and other colleagues in the department, and we will miss his leadership." He enjoyed caring for patients with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders and tried to get to know his patients as people, not just patients. Dr. Shults' last research project involved the study of Multiple System Atrophy. He led the North American Multiple System Atrophy Study Group and was Principal Investigator on a large grant awarded for study of the disease. Dr. Shults was awarded the Junior Faculty Award by the Parkinson's Disease Foundation and the Victory Award at the 2003 Unity Walk in New York City. He served on a number of scientific panels, including the Scientific Advisory Board of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, study sections for the National Institutes for Health and the Department of Veterans' Affairs, the Parkinsons's Study Group, and the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation. He was recognized as one of the Best Doctors in America and in America's Top Doctors. While Shults' prestige in the medical community was of international importance, he never lost his love for his family and always stressed the importance of the family unit. Once, while attending a multi-day annual meeting of the Society of Neuroscience in Phoenix, AZ, on Halloween, he left the meeting following its afternoon session, flew back to San Diego in order to take his son trick-or-treating, and returned to Phoenix at midnight. During the summers, Shults enjoyed crabbing, kayaking, digging clams, and hiking with his family at their cabin on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. Dr. Shults' Appalachian heritage stretched back to the earliest days of the area's settlements. Among his ancestors was Dr. Martin Shults, said to have been the only trained surgeon at the renowned Battle of King's Mountain during the American Revolution. Preceding Dr. Shults in death was his father, Dr. Glen C. Shults. He is survived by his wife, Ellen Koutsky Shults; two children: Andrew Shults, a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, and Sarah Shults, a junior at the Bishop's School, all of California; mother, Love Gray Shults; beloved friend and "assistant mother" Irene F. Barker; brother and sister-in-law, Bill and Odette Shults, all of Newport; and brother, sister-in-law, and nephew, Glen, Linda, and Thomas Shults, all of Asheville, NC. A memorial service will be held at La Jolla Presbyterian Church, La Jolla, CA on Saturday, February 17, 2007, and in Newport at a later date. Memorials may be made to the Cocke County Chapter Habitat for Humanity.
- [S58] Marriage Certificate.
Name Glenn C Shults
Titles and Terms Dr
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 20 Dec 1946
Event Place Cocke, Tennessee, United States
Gender Male
Age 30
Birth Year (Estimated) 1916
Spouse's Name Love Gray
Spouse's Gender Female
Spouse's Age 26
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated) 1920
Page 3246
"Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-X369-1C1?cc=1619127&wc=Q6SB-21H%3A1589264474%2C1589372876 : 22 December 2016), Cocke > Marriage registers, 1946-1954, vol 28-29 > image 33 of 695; citing Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties.
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