About

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 Fellow Academy of Wilderness Medicine. 

Dr. Vilen is U.S Army combat Veteran, having enlisted in the Army Reserve in 1998 as a carpentry/masonry engineer.  He was the 371st Engineer Group NCO of the year in 2001.  Dr. Vilen completed a combat tour in Iraq 2003-2004.

Prior to founding Intuition Health, Dr. Vilen cared for our nation’s heroes at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Vilen started his VA career at the St. Cloud VA HCS in 2014.  He served as a primary care physician and then as the sole pain management physician for the St. Cloud VA HCS.  He was awarded the St. Cloud VA HCS Physician of the Year in 2019. Dr. Vilen finished his tenure at the VA by serving as the Chief of Primary Care for the Montana VA HCS for three years.

Dr. Vilen’s passion in medicine is metabolic health and regenerative medicine.  He understands that each person is unique and treatment plans not specifically tailored to what matters to you and the life you are working toward will fail.  Taking the time to understand what matters to you in life, meeting you where you are at, and then journeying with you in a partnership of health is what brings Dr. Vilen professional fulfillment.

Dr. Vilen is grateful to be living in such a wonderful community! He gives back to Helena as a volunteer soccer and baseball coach.  He also volunteers as an instructor for Montana Bowhunter Education and the Montana Master Hunter Program. 

Dr. Vilen has limited appointment availability during Montana’s fall big game hunting season.

Training

Undergraduate- Luther College

Medical School- University of Minnesota- Duluth

Residency- Montana Family Medicine Residency

Prolotherapy- University of Wisconsin/Hackett Hemwall Patterson Foundation

Dr. Janna Vilen is the co-founder and co-owner of Intuition Health. She is board-certified in Family Medicine and Sports Medicine physician with specialty training in Interventional Regenerative Orthopedic Medicine and metabolic (lifestyle) treatments for pain and maintaining an active lifestyle.

Dr. Vilen’s goal is to find ways to be fit and active in an ever-changing world. Her mission is to have have an excellent quality of life and help others do the same through the integrated approach of being a family practice and sports medicine physician.

Realizing conventional medicine does not support this in clinic practice, Dr. Vilen decided to make the transition to a different healthcare model at a private clinic in Minnesota that combined nonsurgical orthopedics, functional medicine, and fitness specialists. The opportunity to work at a clinic and meet a network of physicians who left conventional medicine to build an integrated healthcare model of finding the root causes of disease rather than pills and steroid injections renewed Dr. Vilen’s interest in practicing medicine.

Dr. Vilen has continued to advance her training in sports medicine and pain management to include: musculoskeletal ultrasound for diagnosis and treatment, nerve blocks, regenerative procedures such prolotherapy and PRP, and lifestyle medicine. She received her training in interventional regenerative orthopedic medicine through Regenexx, the worlds leader in Interventional Orthopedics. Dr. Vilen was the first woman physician in the Regenexx network to be certified for all body areas by the Interventional Orthobiologic Foundation. She has completed additional courses in optimization of health through the Institute of Functional Medicine, training in epigenetics, and the Academy of Preventive and Innovative Medicine.

Yoga became a way for Dr. Vilen to incorporate in her life many of the principles she believes are important in both medicine and life. Dr. Vilen completed a Yoga Teacher Training 200-hour certification through the VA to help others integrate yoga into their own lives in a way that works for them.

In her spare time Dr. Vilen functions as a therapy human for their Doodle, Marvin.

Training:

Undergraduate- University of St. Thomas

Medical school- University of Minnesota- Duluth

Residency- University of Minnesota Family Medicine Residency in St. Louis Park, MN.

Fellowship in Sports Medicine- Montana Family Medicine Residency. 

Prolotherapy- University of Wisconsin/Hackett Hemwall Patterson Foundation

Interventional Orthobiologic Training Program: Interventional Orthopedic Foundation, Attended and passed all courses in ankle/foot, knee, hip, spine, shoulder, elbow, and wrist/hand.