J. Wesley Thompson has practiced medicine for more than 39 years and founded Amity Medical Group in Charlotte, North Carolina, which has grown to six locations. He currently serves as a medical consultant on HIV prevention for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Communicable Disease Branch (CDB), Division of Public Health (DPH).

J Wesley is a board-certified Physician Assistant, the first in North Carolina certified as an HIV Specialist, and among the first 20 in the United States. He has contributed to more than 60 HIV clinical trials and lectures nationally. He serves as Co-Chair of the Southeast Chapter of the American Academy of HIV Medicine and is actively involved in HIV research and prevention initiatives.

He earned his B.A. from Wake Forest University and his Physician Assistant degree and MHS from Duke University. His work has earned honors including the Outstanding Physician Assistant Award in Infectious Diseases (2021), the POZ 100 (2016), and the AAPA Distinguished Fellow Award (2009).

IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN:

  • How education and HIV prevention strategies can help end the HIV epidemic in communities nationwide.
  • Why HIV PrEP is one of the most powerful tools for preventing new HIV infections.
  • How compassionate, patient-centered care builds trust, improves outcomes, and removes barriers to treatment.
  • That leadership in healthcare requires both clinical excellence and a commitment to serving vulnerable populations.
  • Why reducing stigma is essential to increasing HIV testing, prevention, and long-term care engagement.
  • How decades of clinical research have transformed HIV from a fatal diagnosis into a manageable chronic condition.
  • That advocacy, education, and collaboration are critical to creating lasting public health improvements.
  • How investing in prevention today saves lives, strengthens communities, and reduces future healthcare costs.
  • Why hope, empathy, and persistence remain some of the most effective tools in improving patient outcomes.
  • That one dedicated healthcare professional can influence policy, research, education, and countless lives through sustained service.

about the show

Behind every working business, movement, or system that changes lives, there is a sequence of decisions most people never see. The early risks. The turning points. The practical work that does not make headlines.

Impact Makers is a documentary-style TV series built around those stories. It follows the people who are actively building, not just talking about ideas, but putting them into practice in business, technology, education, health, and community development.

Each episode focuses on what was built, why it matters, and how it actually works in the real world. Not as theory, but as lived experience.

The series brings together founders, operators, and leaders who are shaping outcomes in their own spaces, showing how ideas become systems, and how systems begin to influence people, industries, and communities.

This is a platform for builders who are in motion, creating impact that can be seen, measured, and followed.

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