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Martine Puts

Professor; Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Care of Frail Older Adults, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 17 Mar 2026

OfficeLawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, TorontoThe organisation’s office, not a personal address.

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Martine Puts: key facts

Kind of voice
Academic
Role
Professor; Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Care of Frail Older Adults
Organisation
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
Quoted on
Elderly care & frailty
Press coverage
Quoted in the press
Most recently quoted
17 Mar 2026

03  Profile

Who Martine Puts is

Martine Puts, RN PhD FAAN FCAN, is a Professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, where she has worked since 2009.

She holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Care of Frail Older Adults. She received her PhD in 2006 from the Faculty of Medicine at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, with a focus on frailty. Her research programme focuses on improving the health, functioning and quality of life of older adults, including those living with frailty and those with cancer.

She is particularly interested in comprehensive geriatric assessment in cancer management, and in online tools that let patients and clinicians assess functional capacity during cancer treatment. She is also one of the four founders of the Canadian Network of Aging and Cancer.

Notable achievements

  1. 01

    Selected as the 2018 recipient of the Paul Calabresi Award from the International Society of Geriatric Oncology. Source ↗

  2. 02

    Has held the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Care of Frail Older Adults since 2018, and the chair has been renewed. Source ↗

  3. 03

    Received the 2023 Sigma Theta Tau International Excellence in Research, Elizabeth McWilliams Miller Founders Award. Source ↗

  4. 04

    Co-principal investigator on the multicentre randomized controlled 5C trial of comprehensive geriatric assessment and management for older adults with cancer, and one of four founders of the Canadian Network of Aging and Cancer. Source ↗

  5. 05

    Received the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology Award of Excellence in Nursing Research (2018) and the Council of Ontario University Programs in Nursing Scholarship into Practice Award (2019). Source ↗

  6. 06

    Lead author of a 2017 Age and Ageing scoping review of interventions to prevent or reduce frailty in community-dwelling older adults, which included international policies. The journal is published on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. Source ↗

04  The signal · where Martine Puts sits on elderly care & frailty

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Quoted in the press on elderly care & frailty.

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  1. Caroline Abrahams portraitCaroline AbrahamsSector leaderCharity Director, Age UKLeading
  2. Professor Victoria Tzortziou Brown portraitProfessor Victoria Tzortziou BrownClinicianChair of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)Leading
  3. Nadra Ahmed portraitNadra AhmedSector leaderExecutive Co-Chairman, National Care AssociationLeading
  4. Dr Pulin GuptaAcademicProfessor in the department of medicine at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital
  5. Dr Rommel TickooAcademicDirector of internal medicine at Max Hospital, Saket
  6. Martine PutsAcademicProfessor; Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Care of Frail Older Adults, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
  7. Dr Jacqueline GilbertClinicianfrailty consultant at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (QEQM) Hospital
  8. Paul LumsdonClinicianchief nursing officer for NHS Kent and Medway

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05  On the record · press

What Martine Puts has said

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  • physiciansweekly.com

Where Martine Puts has been quoted

  1. Older adults take longer to recover from surgeries than expected; better post-operative planning neededmedicalxpress.com · 17 Mar 2026
  2. Postoperative Mobility Limits Common Among Older Adults With Frailtyphysiciansweekly.com

How we found the articles that name Martine Puts: we searched news for these terms.

  • elderly care
  • frailty
  • frail older
  • falls prevention
  • geriatric
  • older people's health
  • ageing population
  • age-friendly

Also searched with “elderly care” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Elderly care & frailty

Verbatim

“The health system often assumes that caregivers will know what to expect and what to do to assist the patient in their recovery, but our study found that there is very limited guidance about recovery, and hardly any training on post-surgical wound care. Many older adults and their caregivers say they were poorly prepared for what to expect post-surgery.”
Professor at the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, Canada Research Chair in Care of Frail Older Adults · Elderly care & frailty · medicalxpress.com · 17 Mar 2026 · Read the article
“In this study, although LSM improved by 6 months, many older adults with frailty still experienced restricted mobility. Integrating LSM into surgical care may better measure functional recovery.”
RN, PhD, Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto · Elderly care & frailty · physiciansweekly.com · Read the article

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06  Sources

References for this biography

  1. Martine Puts - Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing. Current title, Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto since 2009, PhD 2006 (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), research focus.
  2. Martine Puts - University of Toronto Discover Research. Professor since 1 Jul 2023, earlier academic posts, research focus on geriatric oncology, awards (2018–2019), faculty address.
  3. Awards and Recognition - Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing. Renewal of the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (held since 2018) and the 2023 Sigma Theta Tau award.
  4. Dr. Martine Puts recipient of prestigious Paul Calabresi Award. 2018 Paul Calabresi Award, co-PI of the 5C trial, co-founder of the Canadian Network of Aging and Cancer.
  5. Bloomberg Nursing Rounds - Caring for Older Adults with Cancer. Interest in comprehensive geriatric assessment in cancer management and in online functional-assessment tools.
  6. Martine Puts - LinkedIn. LinkedIn profile that identifies her as Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, and shows her 2024 induction as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Nursing.
  7. Interventions to prevent or reduce the level of frailty in community-dwelling older adults (PubMed). Lead authorship of the 2017 Age and Ageing scoping review on frailty interventions.

07  Contact & links

LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/martine-puts-70811410
Staff page
bloomberg.nursing.utoronto.ca/profile/martine-puts
Website
discover.research.utoronto.ca/14024-martine-puts

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