Dr. Sclater has worked as a family doctor for 35 years and has more than 25 years of experience working as a palliative care physician within the Fraser Health region. He attended Medical School at the University of Calgary and completed a Rotating Internship at Royal Columbian Hospital. He is certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada with an "Added Competency in Palliative Care" and has a teaching appointment as a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of British Columbia. In addition to full-service family practice, Dr. Sclater was an attending physician at Crossroads Hospice in Port Moody for 19 years. He has also provided palliative care services in both hospital and community settings as a consultant physician and continues to provide after-hours support for hospice and community palliative patients within Fraser Health.

His role at IHC is to provide palliative care consultations for patients who are seeking complementary treatments for their advanced cancers. Along with the integrative oncology practitioners, he can help to provide patients with an "integrative palliative approach" to manage their serious illnesses. When palliative care is provided early in a serious illness journey, patients can achieve better symptom management, develop an Advance Care Plan that is consistent with their values, avoid unnecessary medical and hospital interventions, and have better quality of life. His interest in a more holistic approach to medical practice has been strengthened by co-managing the patients attending IHC and these interventions are now also becoming more integrated into his own family practice.