Dr. Rosario Ricalde is a Research Assistant Professor at the National Institutes of Health of the University of the Philippines Manila and is currently serving as the Director of the Newborn Hearing Screening Reference Center. She also holds an appointment as Clinical Associate Professor at the Department Otorhinolaryngology of the Philippine General Hospital.

She graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of the. Philippines Manila under the INTARMED program. She completed her residency training in otorhinolaryngology at the Philippine General Hospital in 2007. Dr. Ricalde went to Institute Georges Portmann of the University of Bordeaux in France for a Clinical and Research Fellowship in Otology, Audiology, and Neurotology. She is a fellow of the Philippine Society of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and Philippine College of Surgeons. She has been the secretary of the Philippine Academy of Neurotology Otology and Related Sciences since 2022.

As an esteemed Otorhinolaryngologist with sub-specialization on Otology and Vestibular Disorders, she has delivered seminars and trainings on Assessment and Management of Meniere Disease, BPPV in Meniere Disease, Video Head Impulse Testing, Vestibular Laboratory Testing, Mastoidectomy, Temporal Bone Anatomy, Temporal Bone Trauma, External, Middle and Inner Diseases, Persistent Postural Perceptual Dizziness, Vertigo in the Elderly, Newborn Hearing Screening and Cochlear Implantation in Children. Her current research is on Newborn Hearing Screening Simulation Laboratory and the National Cochlear Implant Program. She has published case reports and original research in local and international peer-reviewed journals.