Practical Tips for Diagnosing and Managing Inpatient Rheumatic Symptoms (2025)

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Learning Objectives:

Be able to recognize the signs and symptoms of monoarthritis and initiate the appropriate workup for suspected crystalline arthropathy.
Describe the clinical presentation of a hospitalized patient that may have an with autoimmune connective tissue disease, and interpret the laboratory testing needed for diagnosis.
Apply the appropriate laboratory diagnostics and imaging for a patient with weakness as a chief complaint suspect of having an inflammatory myopathy and determine the next steps in managing immunosupressed patients with existing rheumatic disease with joint pain during a hospital admission

Sharon Banks, DO (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology

Penn State College of Medicine/ Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Associate Professor Department of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
Associate Fellowship Director
Medical Director Medical Specialties Clinic

Attended the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Completed Internal Medicine internship and residency at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Completed a Rheumatology fellowship at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville PA. I was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Medicine at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine while completing a Master of Science degree in Health Evaluation Sciences. I currently serve as Associate Program Director of our Rheumatology fellowship program, and Interim Division Director of Rheumatology as well as Medical Director of our Medical Specialties Clinic.