Damiano has served as president of the Clinical Gait and Movement Analysis Society and the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.

Damiano joined the NIH Intramural Research Program and works as the chief of the functional and applied biomechanics section in the rehabilitation medicine department of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.

[1] Her research involving children with cerebral palsy aims to enhance their movement capabilities in the short term and exploit the inherent neuroplasticity and muscular plasticity for more permanent and sustainable functional gains.

[3] In 2017, Damiano and a team of researchers created a robotic exoskeleton designed to treat crouch (or flexed-knee) gait in children with cerebral palsy by providing powered knee extension assistance at key points during the walking cycle.

She currently sits on the editorial board of Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, and the Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation.