Erik Vilen, M.D., FAWM is the co-owner and co-founder of Intuition Health. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine.
Dr. Vilen is a U.S. Army combat veteran, having enlisted in the Army Reserve in 1998 as a carpentry and masonry engineer. He was named the 371st Engineer Group NCO of the Year in 2001 and completed a combat tour in Iraq from 2003 to 2004.
Prior to founding Intuition Health, Dr. Vilen cared for veterans at the Department of Veterans Affairs. He started his VA career at the St. Cloud VA Health Care System in 2014, serving first as a primary care physician and then as the sole pain management physician. He was awarded the St. Cloud VA HCS Physician of the Year in 2019 before finishing his tenure as Chief of Primary Care for the Montana VA Health Care System — a role he held for three years.
Dr. Vilen's passion in medicine is metabolic health and regenerative medicine. He understands that each person is unique and that treatment plans not specifically tailored to the individual will fail. Taking the time to understand what matters to each patient, meeting them where they are, and journeying with them as a partner in health is what brings Dr. Vilen professional fulfillment.