Fours years on an Internal Medicine Residency program followed at Hospital de Clinicas, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Russomano pursued a career in Aerospace medicine outside of her home country of Brazil, due to a lack of such courses nationally.

The following year, 1992, Russomano completed a NASA Flight Surgeon training course at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA.

The years 1994 through till 1998 were spent at King's College London, UK where she became the first person to complete a Ph.D. in respiratory space physiology under the mentorship of Air Vice-Marshall John Ernsting CB OBE FRCP FFOM FRAeS.

Russomano's links remained with King's College London, acting as a visiting professor for a number of years, before being formally employed as a senior lecturer, based in the Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences (CHAPS),[8] School of Basic & Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, contributing to Aviation and Space related Courses.